Cultural relativism

Cultural relativism

Cultural relativism[edit]

The idea of cultural relativism refers to the idea that what is considered true in one culture may not be in another one. This is the opposite of ethnocentrism; referring to the idea of being aware that different beliefs and cultures exist.^[20] An example of this is linguistic relativism, defined as the use of certain words that may have a different meaning in another country. However, a person does not necessarily need to apply the concept of cultural relativism to not be ethnocentric.^[21]

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For example, the biggest change for me personally was to go to Bodhgaya, India and hang out with Buddhists and specifically Tibetan Buddhists which I found mostly to be very precious devout people. And Yet, they did not believe in God in a Christian Sense at all.

I found this refreshing in a way even though I personally believe in God because when I was 15 I invited God to live in my body and he did because I didn't want to die of Blunt Trauma Childhood epilepsy. When I invoked God to live in my body my seizures immediately stopped and my physical appearance completely changed over 3 months time which I evidenced at the time that God had set up residence in my physical body here on earth. And on top of all this suddenly girls were falling in love with me right and left which I also attributed to God living in my body with me which I found difficult to deal with on many fronts. But, finally I realized it was God forming a more personal relationship with all these females and this I could understand so I got over my jealousy of God doing this by age 16 and things started making more sense to me by then. 

But, God living in my body with me I almost didn't survive with on many fronts until I was about 30 to 32 years of age when I finally considered God living in my body with me to be a blessing not only to me but to all mankind. So, from about age 32 I didn't have thoughts of suicide because of the overwhelm of God living in my body with me 24 hours a day. Supernatural events went wherever I did within me and around me sometimes for miles in all directions and this constant supernatural changes of time and space all the time I didn't learn to appreciate fully until I was in my 30s.

At this point I could see my presence on earth with God in my body with me was a blessing to all mankind. But, until I was at least 30 it was just too much to deal with being alive at all.

So, when I met people who believed in thousands of hierarchical Buddhas all the way up to Vajrasattva and Nyema (the Vajrayana is the "Lightning Path" of Tibetan Buddhism by the way.)

In other words "full enlightenment in one lifetime". Lightning.

But, people not believing in God at least in the context that I did I found refreshing because the universe took on an entirely different meaning to me. I knew God and Jesus and Saint Germain had brought me to Buddhism and specifically to Tibetan Buddhism because I had been with Saint Germain as Padmasambhava and as Milarepa in those lifetimes in Tibet. So, his mind stream as an enlightened being had created both Tibetan Buddhism as well as the amazingness of Milarepa Tibet's most well loved and accepted Saint.

The reason Milarepa is accepted so well is his mother made him become a sorcerer and kill his evil relatives that had enslaved his mother and sister and he after his father died and had stolen their inheritance from them and made them slaves instead. So, after he brought a hail storm down on a wedding feast and around 25 people died he felt bad and spent most of the rest of his life doing penance and becoming enlightened in the caves of the Himalayas as the most reknowned Cave Tibetan Yogi of all time. IN his later years he flew through the air while singing his devotional songs to the Buddhas and Dhakas and Dakinis. (note: a Dhaka is a male angel and a Dakini is a female angel.)

IF you didn't know this before there are angels in the Buddhist hierarchy too.

Cultural relativism comes from appreciating other cultures. Since almost all cultures spring from those cultures religious and shamanic roots the first step to understand a culture usually is to understand what that culture believes in and has historically believed in in it's progress to the present and into the future.

IF you don't understand "WHY?" they believe what they do it is very hard to make sense of any culture.