Just A Thought ~ DICHOTOMY

"If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing on the ocean of delusion."

~ Lin-Chi, Patriarch of the Koan School of Zen, Died 866 CE ~

Because it has a vested interest in doing so, organized religion has fostered the belief in us that life somehow consists of the special and the ordinary, the mundane and the supramundane, the worldly, and the sacred, and this erroneous belief prevents us from seeing the wonder of life all around us. True, there is beauty in the buildings dedicated to religion and the pageantry of religious ceremonies, but it is nothing compared to the magnificent shows that nature constantly stages for free. To live religiously, we do not need temples or churches, ceremonies, priests, candles, bells, or incense, or days set aside as holy.