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Monday, June 26, 2006

Hobgoblin

"The foolish consistency is the hobgblin of little minds."
--EMERSON--


The fact that one interpretation has been made for several centuries does not always mean that it is the best and the righteous one.

The fact that women are created different from men is undeniable. The fact that women experience different thing in this life is undeniable too. The different way of thinking, the different experience of undergoing this life will create different interpretation.

And why on earth do people easily say that someone new--that happens to be a woman--is wrong in interpreting something? Who has right to say that someone is right and someone is wrong? Who has right to say that someone else's interpretion must be wrong? Who has right to say that his/her interpreation is exactly what God meant for all human beings?

Nobody has proven it yet.
Again, I want to quote what Buddha said:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.


I am not Buddhist; I just use MY common sense in interviewing this life.

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