I also understand that there's still a debate about the oldest continuing civilization - India or China. But there is no doubt, as far as religion and spirituality, that India has far older roots than other cultures.Not sure if it is germane but India has a civilization going back thousands of years before the Romans and the Jews.
After I did my fair share of studying Zen, I feel it's the most 'pure' of any religious/spiritual paths simply because of it's absolute honesty and absence of belief systems. "That is the best I can say for it."Zen is mundane to me Cecil.
It would take more belief than I could ever muster to swallow that one... no wonder religions asks their followers to believe and have faith.It was written that the bishops present at the council gathered all the hundreds of manuscripts then circulating and placed them under the huge council table, then they prayed together and "besought the Lord that the divinely inspired writings should get themselves up onto the table, while the spurious ones should remain below." And this is apparently how it was done.
The professor emeritus of religious studies got it; he chuckled amiably when he read the paper in class.
