tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post7800698423337644355..comments2024-01-18T02:47:12.669-08:00Comments on Tregear Vean: One God! Revjeanrolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12744131101249601856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-43561593737960361732013-09-28T01:31:51.679-07:002013-09-28T01:31:51.679-07:00Martin. I've only just found this remarkable c...Martin. I've only just found this remarkable comment! Thank you so much for sharing this! It is beautiful and I hope the love and joy you are finding stay with you all your life....blessings to you both! Revjeanrolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12744131101249601856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-54047473560254345712013-08-14T15:00:26.084-07:002013-08-14T15:00:26.084-07:00As a product of the same era I too had an ambivale...As a product of the same era I too had an ambivalence toward anything spiritual I prefered modern philosophy (existentialist) (logical positivism) etc etc ,although my parents were both RC they lost their religion with the death of their first son so I was left to make my own mind up and as I was always top of the class in religious studies (loved theology) I came to the conclusion that there was no God but that of ones own conscience and what your conscience dictates. Viewing the old testament as a jumble of interesting story's and the new testament as a misrepresented Philosophy.<br />That is until I encountered Death in all his forms riding with me everyday enough to be on a first name basis. After the break up of my first marriage I had to find employ very quickly and ended up delivering money in London for Securicor which can be said to be eventful! After one of my encounters with some very lazy,greedy types who tried to relieve me of my said charge I found myself in a tropical paradise married again (Ink barely dry from No1) to a lovely girl of Buddhist persuasion! We have been together now for six joyful laughter filled years and have a very active three year old menace.<br />While visiting my wife's family in Issarn province I suffered one of my funny turns and my father in-law took me to the local temple not so much a shrine as it was just some accommodation blocks for the monks the temple itself being a grove of slender trees arched over to form a beautiful canopy which he just let me walk around for an hour.<br />I was so moved by this experience that I asked to go back a second time and was instructed in the proper form of genuflection which I humbly performed in good faith alone under the trees to a gilt covered Buddha and found out what faith really means because on rising from the third bow the statue "Winked at me" and an old lady who was sweeping the dust said in perfect English "Buddha says Hello" I sat there dumbfounded for half an hour until Dad got impatient for a beer so we picked up our fishing rods and sat by the local pond in silence which is not usual for two such garrulous men.<br />I have never told a soul about this encounter until now.Martin Ryeland (Tregea)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14926230800008224819noreply@blogger.com