Why are you religious or spiritual?
I like the responses by @JustGeorge, @SalixIncendium, @Quintessence, and @beenherebeforeagain in this thread. I’m religious and spiritual because it is just the way that I am and how I experience things.
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Why are you religious or spiritual?
Why are you religious or spiritual?
Are you religious because your religion is factual? Are you spiritual because it brings you inner peace? Are you religious because that is the moral choice?
Perhaps you simply cannot escape it, even if you wanted to.
The acquisition of mana for the realizations of my ambitions, as well as self improvement, is my personal reasonings for being religious. Though I try to escape it time to time, I find myself unable to.
Below describes what religion does to me
"Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles...
Other people are contented...
But I alone am drifting not knowing where I am.
Like a new-born babe before it learns to smile,
I am alone, without a place to go.
Other have more than they need, but I alone have nothing.
I am a fool. Oh, yes! I am confused.
Other men are clear and bright,
But I alone am dim and weak.
Other men are sharp and clever,
But I alone am dull and stupid.
Oh, I drift like the waves of the sea.
Without direction, like the restless wind.
Everyone else is busy,
But I alone am aimless and depressed.
I am different.
I am nourished by the great mother."
Tao Te Ching, verse 20
I simply discovered Buddhism basically comports with what I perceive to be the real.Why are you religious or spiritual?
Are you religious because your religion is factual? Are you spiritual because it brings you inner peace? Are you religious because that is the moral choice?
Perhaps you simply cannot escape it, even if you wanted to.
The acquisition of mana for the realizations of my ambitions, as well as self improvement, is my personal reasonings for being religious. Though I try to escape it time to time, I find myself unable to.
Below describes what religion does to me
"Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles...
Other people are contented...
But I alone am drifting not knowing where I am.
Like a new-born babe before it learns to smile,
I am alone, without a place to go.
Other have more than they need, but I alone have nothing.
I am a fool. Oh, yes! I am confused.
Other men are clear and bright,
But I alone am dim and weak.
Other men are sharp and clever,
But I alone am dull and stupid.
Oh, I drift like the waves of the sea.
Without direction, like the restless wind.
Everyone else is busy,
But I alone am aimless and depressed.
I am different.
I am nourished by the great mother."
Tao Te Ching, verse 20