heres a pitch for a religion;
its the teaching of immortality; anyone who adopts these teachings discovers Immortality. pure & simple....
Non-dualist philosophy:
-Monism; all is one
-Pantheism;all is God
-liberation teaching; this path will result in liberation from the bonds of relative existence.
worship of the Cosmic person;
-The Divine Mother; for the purpose of devotion all nature is seen as our Parent, like a loving mother...
God is Cosciousness- since all nature is God, the path to transcendence starts with realizing that all nature is Consciousness, the same consciousness within your body & all beings.
dissolving the mind in the One Consciousness; the mind after unbroken contemplation & meditation forgets all names & forms & abides as the absolute.
I am Consciousness, I am God- realize that you are the one true consciousness the supreme existing equally everywhere.
You are God, You are Consciousness absolute- all beings arise within this self, & thus all beings are this one self, all beings are manifestations of you with different upbringing, opinions, & set of values... Thus all beings are you
-all is one God, we are all one God; thus all beings are avatars! all forms are avatars of that formless God!
-all life is sacred & all life is equal in importance... trees, people, dogs, cats, flies, etc. all forms of the formless one.
Form & Formlessness; Form is formlessness given form, Form is an illusion, Formlessness is Consciousness.
Death; Death is the primordial state of formlessness, in the beginning we are dead, in the middle we are alive, & in the end we are once again dead...
Death being formless is the immortal state of the deathless, Death is our true self.
-Death is feared by the ego because Death is God, & for the ego to die is to once again be one as God.
-Long hair- traditionally the Sage wore long hair in the Vedas(kesin hymn)
-robes that are of the color of fire- as in the kesin hymn, the robes of fire represent the burning away of ignorance, the "color of FIRE" translates to yellow, red, or orange...
scriptures;
kesin hymn(rig-veda)
heart sutra
huang po doctrine of one mind
tao te ching
Hua hu ching
Bhagavad gita
avadhuta gita
Atmabodha
upanishads
yoga practice; Yoga teachings are accepted as ways to liberation
-meditation; it is the WAY
Code of Values;
Naturalness
simplicity
genuineness
compassion
mindfulness
A-Ghora(lit. never impure) nothing is impure, or imperfect, all is consciousness! all is God!
so rather the attitude becomes the determinant factor...
-only ignorance is sin.
-Knowledge is the Salvation.
SoMa Plant- this is interpreted to mean Ganja, which in the bible is associated with the tree of life, but in the vedas is the plant used to brew a magic drink that inspired the poets.
Tantric Sex- sex is seen as a natural thing for humans and instead of promoting abstinence encourages people to use sex to grow spiritually
asceticism & vegetarianism- its encouraged, but not entirely important.
Love; last but not least is Love, without love its all a waste of time, ignorance obscures our love & meditation brings the love in each of us out...