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Originally Posted by hcap

http://www.4peaks.com/ppox.htm



"1. The Search for the Bull

In the pasture of this world,
I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the bull.
Following unnamed rivers,
lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains,
My strength failing and my vitality exhausted,
I cannot find the bull.
I only hear the locusts chirring through the forest at night.

Comment: The bull never has been lost.
What need is there to search?
Only because of separation from my true nature,
I fail to find him.
In the confusion of the senses I lose even his tracks.
Far from home, I see many crossroads,
but which way is the right one I know not.
Greed and fear, good and bad, entangle me.

Alright. So, moving right along the animal chain, we have seen elephants and now bulls. I can't wait until you introduce us to wooly mammoths.

Only because of separation from my true nature,
I fail to find him

So close to the truth, yet so far. (In fact, there is grain of truth to it.) The one thing about Eastern religions, they're all about ME. Virtually all introspection. But biblical Christianity says that sinners are "dead" because they are separated from God, which is what death is. Physical death is separation of the soul from the body. Spiritual death is separation of a living soul from God. The Second Death is the separation of soul and body from God for all eternity.

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