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December 2008 
What were you taught about religion?
Posted on Feb 6th, 2008
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Daniel
Daniel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 04, 2008:
Religion is experience and enlightenment, mitzvot and meditation, wisdom and wonder, myth and meaning, consciousness and community.
Religion is the ultimate idealism. Religion is the ultimate pragmatism.
Religion is good, especially when it is an ACTIVE pursuit of wisdom.
Religion is not only . . . a book, a ceremony, a building, an organization, an authority . . .
Religion transcends whatever you think you know about it.
Religion is the blueprint for a good life. This is not necessarily a life of extraordinary wealth, fame or power, but it is fundamentally healthy and satisfying in ways that can only be experienced with humility. One who believes and acts, for whatever reason, as though one is entirely self-possessed and self-determined is cognatively unprepared to fully experience the reality in which one is, in fact, very much an essential, integrated part.
Religion is the relationship between humanity (as an individual, as a wide variety of social configurations and as a species) and the divine. The quality of this relationship may vary considerably, it all depends on the individual's consciousness, beliefs, knowledge, temperament, humility, access to information and acceptance of the unknown. One who honestly and wisely and habitually re-examines his or her premises will tend to have a better relationship with the divine, with one's fellow humans, with nature, with onesself.
Peace and Love
Religion is the ultimate idealism. Religion is the ultimate pragmatism.
Religion is good, especially when it is an ACTIVE pursuit of wisdom.
Religion is not only . . . a book, a ceremony, a building, an organization, an authority . . .
Religion transcends whatever you think you know about it.
Religion is the blueprint for a good life. This is not necessarily a life of extraordinary wealth, fame or power, but it is fundamentally healthy and satisfying in ways that can only be experienced with humility. One who believes and acts, for whatever reason, as though one is entirely self-possessed and self-determined is cognatively unprepared to fully experience the reality in which one is, in fact, very much an essential, integrated part.
Religion is the relationship between humanity (as an individual, as a wide variety of social configurations and as a species) and the divine. The quality of this relationship may vary considerably, it all depends on the individual's consciousness, beliefs, knowledge, temperament, humility, access to information and acceptance of the unknown. One who honestly and wisely and habitually re-examines his or her premises will tend to have a better relationship with the divine, with one's fellow humans, with nature, with onesself.
Peace and Love
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