On this website, certain words are used with a specific meaning which might or might not be a popular meaning. The reader might find this glossary useful.
Children: In Buddhist terminology this means people who are unaware (of spiritual matters) more than simply young people. It implies undeveloped, people who have never bothered to become aware of the ways of the world or, more importantly, the immeasurable. They are unquestioning followers, the ‘faithful’ rather than thinkers and observers. This is repeated in the Christian saying, ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me.’ and was probably borrowed from Buddhism.
Corruption: A common, denotative meaning is depraved, rotten. It can also mean broken up, as a body corrupts after death. Broken up is the main meaning used in this website, leading to ‘division’ of the whole. A corrupted society is a broken up, divided society.
Evil: A word loaded with connotations from the Catholic and Protestant Christian churches. Forget those. Here, I define an evil person as someone who does something which harms or makes another person’s life more difficult in any way knowingly or unknowingly. It can be as simple as using harsh words, verbal abuse, physical abuse and the major evil is killing any sentient being. This is total evil. Generally, people with power and little intelligence can be classed as evil when they introduce laws which negatively affect people such as reduce health care, social housing, education or classing people as undesirable aliens because they have fled from their country and have nowhere else to live. This all demands much observation and is, unfortunately, rampant in our present world society. The rich and powerful taking money from the poor is evil. There is also stated to be what I call a ‘free-floating’ evil (like a cloud of energy) ready to affect people who are open to evil. Do not invite evil; evil is too easily transmitted.
Religion: Popularly means religious belief system such as Roman Catholic or Protestant Christianity (in western Europe where I live) and which supports unprovable faith and denounces logical doubt. The word ‘religion’ stems from ‘ligature’ which means ‘to connect’ and the prefix ‘re’ suggests a repetition. Here it nearly always refers to reconnect(ing) and often to the ‘what is’ - the repeated sequence of moments in the present time.
2020-01-15. Work in progress
