A philosopher discusses why people don't live by what they hear in church or mosque, contrasting organized religion with his indigenous spirituality. Both address the same questions: why we suffer, what life means, what happens when we die. The difference is that his spirituality is a continuous way of living, not a set of formal practices.
People go to church or they go to the mosque and they hear the words, but they don't live by the words they hear. You know, maybe they leave church and then they're leaving the parking lot and they're honking at people and calling them asshole, whatever it may be. They're not living what they're learning in the church. What type of things did you find were similar between the different religions? Was there like kind of a singular message that you think, or—
You know, I started with my own spirituality, which is called spirituality of vitality.
Okay.
And that spirituality is my own indigenous. That's the spirituality that gave birth to me. That I have that together. And so with that background, I was able to go now. Then I went Christianity and to Islam. And I think they have one thing in common. And as a philosopher, I have to speak as a philosopher. I think one of the things that they all do is they try to answer a basic human question that every human being asks everywhere. You know, why am I here? What's the purpose of life? What is the point? Yeah. Why does it matter? You know, why do good things happen to bad people? Why do bad things happen to good people? And how do we even begin to think about this? When someone die, I mean, people stand there, they wonder, you know, why is life absurd? The absurdity of it all. I think they all spirituality, they have this in common. Then you have the Judaism, they take their own path. Christianity took their own, takes their own. Islam, and then Of course, the Abrahamic spirituality, they are religious. Religious in the sense that, you know, they have— they require people coming together.
They have practices. Yeah, frameworks.
And my own spirituality is basically a way of life.
Yeah.
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