New Forms Of Religion

This reading is very important not only for the young generation but also for the old generation. The traditional conventional othodox and dogmatic religions are not relevant to the young generation. The great ship of the fundmentalist religion seems to be sinking and as Laurence Freeman says," the resurgnce of on an unprecened scale on the contemplative scale of the contemplative dimension -indeed heart-of religion." Though I am of the old gerartion, I am on the same wave length. We all have hunger to walk on the spiritual path, a path of awakening and actualizing of human potential - self-actualization, self-realization. The tradional dogmatic religions cannot quench our fulfill ou hunger and quench our thirst. Spiituality lits up our inner light. It is beyond praise and blam, and has no space and time boudaries. It dwels in all of us. Contemplative practices open the inne door to see it. It brings all people together and creates brothehood and sisterhood- harmony. Contemplation by itself is not enough. It has to join hands with action. I know it and try to live my life by implementing contemplative practices. It is an eveyday practice. I experience heartfelt joy and contentment. I love how Dalai Lama reponded to a question asked by a reporter, "What is your religion?" Dalai Lama answered, "Compassion and loving kindness is my religion and I lve by it." This remeinds me of Mahtama Gandhi's respose to a question,"What is you message?" And he said," Life is my message." As the author says, "We all seek wholeness". We all feel longing for wholeness. I relate to these wise satatements by doing selfless service, by holding a hand of a someone feeling pain, by relating to someone compassionately and kindly who is suffeing, and by unconditional postive regard. By practice it gets easy, effortless, and natural. And I feel fulfillment and gratitude. Life is a blissful journey, a pilgrimage. Namaste. Jagdish P Dave

This is beautiful … reads like poetry and truth dancing. Thankful!