a human being excepting that he chose to journey inwards
and came to the realization that all (n despite it
being) not hunky dory in this world and instead of wishing and
wanting to ''change'' the world to fit his ..., he trancended the
polarizing, dichotomizing conceptualized notions of mind-living
thru the and finally awakened.
Having said that, it is erroneous to assume that only Buddhists
are adopting such a stance when idol worshipping is
concerned. Hindus, Buddhsists, Christians in one or
or another do that. This form of worshipping is
actually telling oneself that one is not ''good'' enough.
It is cos ''sick'' human beings created ''god' in their own
(man''s) image and hence the choas , the divisiveness, the
prejudices and the bigotry!
The irony of it is Jesus never uttered he was Christian. Buddha
never did about Buddhism and nor did Mohd about Islam.
Perhaps modern man has confused spirituality and religion. The
essential is always spiritual and the accidental is always
religion. Relgion is temporal and a reaction to ... (cos of
beleifs, traditions ... which is acquired from or accepted from
someone esle/book or ...) and spirituality is that which is
eternal, existential and herenow. The form resonates with the
masses cos it has the element of certainty! The latter cannot be be
made certain and uncertainty is something the human mind cannot
accept or reconcile to.
PS - As long as there is no synthesis of the essential and the
accidental one is doomed and however or whichever way one may try
it is probably going to split one on the inside.
