The Interfaith Summit
February 23, 2009
Venerable Wuling in Interfaith Dialogue

I’d like to share with you some of my favorite comments that came out of the interfaith summit.

 Unity not uniformity

 

Interfaith dialogue could be the movement

from tolerance to understanding to respect to love.

 

Before we are a faith,

we are a people.

 

I was expecting to meet Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Instead, I met people.

 

“When you pray, first move your feet.”

As people of faith, we need to engage with the world.

 

Religions are a means to an end,

not the end in themselves.

 

In meditation, as we move within,

boundaries will drop away and we will find ourselves without and one with everything.

 

Be relentless in the pursuit of compassion.

 

 

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