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Bluejay- that's absolutely beautiful, and i'm wishing i knew it was there all along. :( the place i went to, though, was a little Zen center in a converted farm house. small, very easy to miss if you're looking for anything like a church or pagoda (which i was). i'll see if i can find a...

hey Bluejay- the Buddhism Club here is planning a trip to the Indy Zen Center this spring, i think. i know there's a little Zen temple in Bloomington, which i've been to. very neat place, appropriately unassuming and urban-rustic.

i had the honor of visiting this neat Zen temple in Bloomington Indiana this summer. i was expecting an imposing pagoda-like structure, and found this cool old mid-west farm house instead, with a little vegetable garden, and a few cats. i was expecting something totally different, and drove past...

hey taryn- i wouldn't say i chose my religious tradition (Quaker), so much as found it. it was one of those "i guess i was really a ______ my whole life, but i never knew it" situations, and i'm grateful to have found a religious community where i feel at home and at peace. i wouldn't say...

i do find it difficult to believe in anything absolutely good, with all the dreadful things that happen in the world, and to others. my faith is shaken regularly, sometimes disintegrates, and grows back slowly. i think that for many, the world is simply too full of cruelty and uncertainty...

that was very well spoken. and i think it's true. knowing where you're coming from can help you understand your relation to those belief systems that ring true, and how to approach them. :) it's just a topic that hits a nerve with me. i see alot of my peers adopt aspects or symbols of other...

Hey PainterMan- you're right- in general, religious traditions all have their general principals or mottos which ring true with many people- the golden rule, etc. but when you borrow specific things from another person faith, you are borrowing part of their culture, the "supernatural...

hey all the Quaker tradition believes that all people have a spark of the divine within them, and that we can all potentially commune with God. there are often times where i silently ask "what should i do?" (often with lots of silent exasperation) and a sort of conviction or answer will come...

mix-and-match spirituality. the spiritual path that seeks to commune with the Tao while borrowing from Buddhism a belief in karma and transmigration, the doctrine of ahimsa from Jainism, and the Navajo hozho. is mix-and-match spirituality honoring or disrepecting the traditions it borrows...

and i've always liked the mennonites.... funny how these things work out. there's a mennonite community just a few miles away which is pretty cool. i've got to sing that song to some of my professors, see if they know it. :D

i had one that read "go perot" for humor's sake. another one read: "you are entitled to your wrong opinion" :)

hey all i do definately believe in ghosts, something my peers and family find odd. i've been to certain places that give me (and others with me) a feeling of danger or malignancy, so i suppose places can have their ghosts, too. i've also had the feeling of being watched, and it is a different...

hey all i've found this article on an Episcopalian website, which offers a definition of religion and spirituality... “Spirituality” describes, at least in part, that search for meaning and answers to our questions about life and death. We cannot answer them on our own, so we turn to...

i am against all form of prejudice, including those of which i am myself guilty- Davey

has anybody seen that recent movie "Ray", about Ray Charles? absolutely wonderful. i recomend it. :)

hey, cosmo i'd have to diagree with your "controling the masses" argument. what masses? are a family group of San people in South Africa practicing their religion "controled masses"? if anything, i think religion is about freedom. the freedom to expand your sense of purpose to the...

Brian- i agree. from my point of view, manipulating or controling spiritual power as one's sole religious practice doesn't sound balanced. though i could be looking at this all wrong.... still, i get the impression that the terms "mystic" and "magick" get confused fairly often, which...

hey all, i'm going to paraphrase some william james here. a mystical experience is one that defies description and must be experienced to be understood. and in which one feels that some greater spiritual knowledge or truth (as opposed to a truth meant solely for the person undergoing...

hey all- i see spirituality as the lifting of a veil over the heart's eye. spirituality is not limited to a house of worship or a round on prayer beads- as Vajra said, it remains with one when one eats, mourns, smiles, eats, speaks, and prays. it is something that must be woken up to within...