My religious upbringing has had a great deal of influence on the
spiritually inclined man I am today and I am very grateful for that. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it
make a sound? If I don’t tell you my religion does it mean I don’t have one? Do I have to say the word “Rama” or “Jesus” or "HaShem" or “Buddha” or “Allah”
to mean the same thing? Isn’t language a man-made construct that
artificially limits a meaning to make it more digestible? Does the word
“love” fully encompass its infinite variations? If I don’t say the word
“love” does it mean I don’t love you? If I can’t put it into words does
it mean I don’t feel it? Does it make it less real?
I don’t need a religious text to tell me it feels right to be good to other people. I don’t need a person in a robe to tell me when I’ve done something wrong. I don’t need to choose sides when people kill each other because they use different words to describe the indescribable..
No one wants to make the wrong choice especially if it means burning in a fiery pit for eternity. If you still want to know which religion I am: I am a Hindu-by-choice. I like that term. If you think of the countless people born and raised in a given religion, many of them practice half-heartedly or not at all by the time they are adults. People who seek and embrace a spiritual path on their own tend to be very devout in their practice. When something is just given to you you tend to take it for granted, but when you earn it on your own with much effort it tends to be very precious to you. I am fully convinced that I was led to the dharma. It found me. The Universe willed it.
'And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.' - Paulo Coelho
I don’t need a religious text to tell me it feels right to be good to other people. I don’t need a person in a robe to tell me when I’ve done something wrong. I don’t need to choose sides when people kill each other because they use different words to describe the indescribable..
No one wants to make the wrong choice especially if it means burning in a fiery pit for eternity. If you still want to know which religion I am: I am a Hindu-by-choice. I like that term. If you think of the countless people born and raised in a given religion, many of them practice half-heartedly or not at all by the time they are adults. People who seek and embrace a spiritual path on their own tend to be very devout in their practice. When something is just given to you you tend to take it for granted, but when you earn it on your own with much effort it tends to be very precious to you. I am fully convinced that I was led to the dharma. It found me. The Universe willed it.
'And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.' - Paulo Coelho
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