I love this. Love is living life with, suffering with, being among. Part of our faith is to enter the world with open wounds and be broken by it.
There’s a polemical edge to this quote, folks. I wonder if C.S. Lewis intended this to be heard to speak to the Buddhist philosophy of non-attachment, ‘Nekkhamma is a Pali word generally translated as “renunciation” or “the pleasure of renunciation” while also conveying more specifically “giving up the world and leading a holy life” or “freedom from lust, craving and desires.” (source: Wikipedia, emphasis mine)’
I desire deeply to see the will of God on earth, to see harmony and peace between each other and the earth.
Because I believe deeply in this social justice, my faith is wrapped up in a desire that, as I read, conflicts with non-attachment. I desire the transformation of my self and the transformation of the world, and I pray for it.
I seek to love the world deeply, to suffer her pangs and delight in her ordinary things. I seek to love life deeply, and I pray that God would pour out love on the earth in such abundance, that it transforms our personal, professional, and social lives. I pray that transforming love would replace currency. I pray that love would heal poverty and injustice.
I pray for this. I desire this.
Are there any thoughts from Buddhists out there on this? Am I misreading? Is this a translation thing? Any disagreement with me from Christians? Any way to harmonize these two ideas without doing violence to either tradition? It’s been a number of years since I studied Buddhism in any formal way.
I love this. Love is living life with, suffering with, being among. Part of our faith is to enter the world with open wounds and be broken by it.
There’s a polemical edge to this quote, folks. I wonder if C.S. Lewis intended this to be heard to speak to the Buddhist philosophy of non-attachment, ‘Nekkhamma is a Pali word generally translated as “renunciation” or “the pleasure of renunciation” while also conveying more specifically “giving up the world and leading a holy life” or “freedom from lust, craving and desires.” (source: Wikipedia, emphasis mine)’
I desire deeply to see the will of God on earth, to see harmony and peace between each other and the earth.
Because I believe deeply in this social justice, my faith is wrapped up in a desire that, as I read, conflicts with non-attachment. I desire the transformation of my self and the transformation of the world, and I pray for it.
I seek to love the world deeply, to suffer her pangs and delight in her ordinary things. I seek to love life deeply, and I pray that God would pour out love on the earth in such abundance, that it transforms our personal, professional, and social lives. I pray that transforming love would replace currency. I pray that love would heal poverty and injustice.
I pray for this. I desire this.
Are there any thoughts from Buddhists out there on this? Am I misreading? Is this a translation thing? Any disagreement with me from Christians? Any way to harmonize these two ideas without doing violence to either tradition? It’s been a number of years since I studied Buddhism in any formal way.