New Way of practicing Old Beliefs

[Leonardo17]

Belaqua:

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You have this mind-based philosophical approach to spiritual issues. It reminds me of what typical Christian or other Abrahamic scholars did for centuries. Contently debating for ages but never getting to anything of substance.
 
Spirituality does not really work like that. I do some reading to understand the basics. Then I meditate more or do some of the practice to allow “real understanding” to occur.
 
That’s another important point too. This is not philosophy. It may look philosophical. But the whole “happening” is actually happening beyond the limit of the mind (or Budhi as eastern religions are calling it).
 

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On scientology:

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I don’t really like this type of approaches. People can lose money + years of their lives in such empty endeavors.
 
Also: It’s not that important. There is nothing wrong with being “unspiritual” if it is not a part of your life program

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Grand Nudger:

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“"Bad spirituality" is still spirituality. The politics of religion becoming plainly apparent in that list. That's one possible value system we might find, but there are more..and alot of them, even in the development of what we might consider to be paragon candidate ideologies...arose from martial cultures and were very much used as pretext for eliminating barbarous tribes. Such was the case for jainism, for example.”
 
- I don’t agree with that. There are all sorts of bigots and charlatans in all spiritual tradition. Yet, the majority of us are still managing to end up in a spiritual system that is more or less “correct”. It is the the duty of each and every one of us to try to find something that resonates with reason and is still nourishing for our soul.
See, the moment I say “soul” I’m out of the realm of philosophy. The meaning of that phrase is that “it has to fell right for us inside” (that’s not a philosophical kind of definition at all )

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- The main focus of spiritual thought is this:
 
We don’t really know what is present in the emptiness in front of us. Yes there is air, and molecules, and atoms but what is it that fills the empty space between protons? Modern Physics always gets weirder and weirder as you deal with smaller bub-atomic particles and there are all sorts of not so easy to understand theories on the true nature of the universe.
 
What we do here is that we ask some of the deeper questions to ourselves (by allowing the possibility of religious scripture being something other than works of fictions designed to manipulate unawares people).
 
And the whole thing is set to remain mainly theoretical until you reach the level of an enlightened master (and experience these phenomenon called God Directly). Hence the need for humility and willingness to have a discussion on other possibilities