"After several more days during which Francis continued to plead for the sultan's conversion and an end to the fighting--according to a later source he had to fend off the advances of a beautiful whore sent to ensnare him-- the learned doctors reached their unanimous conclusion: al-Kamil must have the friars beheaded immediately. Reflecting on their advice the Sultan recalled that a highly respected Jew, once bidden to pronounce on the relative merits of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, had murmered something about three gold rings which were virtually indistinguishable. He therefore decided that death would be a shabby reward for the friars' good intentions."
- Francis of Assisi, a Revolutionary Life, by Adrian House
This makes me think of the rings of the lord of the rings as five major world religions... and the wars between the humans in the novels as the religious wars such as crusades.
Islam, Christianity, Judaism
Buddhism, and Hinduism
which is the one to bind them? Was one religion almost thrown away once, perhaps symbolically? Like the one ring almost destroyed in the fire? Was it buddhism, who's no self doctrine can be used as a case for slavery, mental slavery the worst kind?
As I study yoga and meditate more I find the emptiness doctrine far too frightening, and the deceptions in religions in general, the hiding scary
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