One makes interesting friends as a TM teacher. Living back in my small
hometown in the 1980s one of them was the local church pastor who was
also into computers. His son once visiting with a high school friend
spotted my picture of SBS and said "his dad would not approve". Little
did he know his dad loved discussing theology with me and had no problem
with my spiritual choices. :-D
On 01/08/2015 01:23 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
"The thing that bothered me about the movie I reviewed here the other
day, "I Origins" is they were a bit naive about the difference between
religion and spirituality. The Pitt character is actually arguing
spirituality not religion. But the writer even had one Indian
character ask him if he is "religious"
This is a great point, Bhairitu! And it is something that I always
felt was gift of walking the "spiritual" path and being a meditator,
is that one begins to make clear distinctions about things and find
ways to clarify it. For a number of years I have been irritated by the
use of spirituality being used as a synonym for religion. It is not
its equivalent. Joseph Campbell and CG Jung were great at pointing
that out. If anything, they are antonyms and mean very different
things. Kind of like the maps is not the territory. One (religion)
may be a discription of the other (the territory), but the experience
of the two is very different.
I think this is why the ability to discriminate (as in seeing
distinction, especially fine distinctions, and not the bigoted type of
discrimination) comes about with meditation and spiritual growth.
Distinction is also not the sole providence of meditation, either.
It's part of growth and flowering of the mind and awareness.
