09-14-2008
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Re: New Approach to Explain Religious Behavior
Just a couple of quotes that came to mind...
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A child's mind is nothing at all; it is zero mind. It's like a clear mirror. Red comes, red; white comes, white. Only reflected action: when a child is hungry, it eats; when it is tired, it only sleeps.
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-Zen Master Seung Sahn
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Religion- whether we choose to name the experience thus or not- is to be lured by the transitory that reveals the transcendent, to be captured by the aesthetic that that discloses the divine word, and it is to mingle those categories so that, ultimately, an integrative play cancels discrimination and makes obsolete or meaningless divisions between sacred and profane...The world is no longer divided then, into those inconvenient categories of subject and object, and the world becomes religiously apprehended...Religion, like the meaning of life or a good joke, defies definition or explanation. But like these two, heightening awareness enriches the experiences...
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- Lynda Sexson from Ordinarily Sacred |
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