~~ Spirituality verses Religion ~~ posted 10/12/2009 10:25:31 AM | 6 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: spirituality, religion, mind, dogma, belief

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Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realise that having a belief system, a set of thoughts you regard as the absolute truth.. does not make you spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs are. In fact the more you make your thoughts, your beliefs, into your identity the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Many religious people are stuck at that level. They equate truth with thought and as they are completely identified with thought, their mind, they claim to be in the sole possession of the truth in an unconscious attempt to protect their identity. They dont realise the limitations of thought. Unless you believe, think, exactly as they do.. you are wrong in their eyes. And in the not too distant past they would have felt justified in killing you for that. And some still do, even now.

The new spirituality, the transformation of consciousness is arising to a large extent outside of the structures of the existing institutionalised religions. There were always pockets of spiritually even in mind dominated religions, although the institutionalised hierarchy’s felt threatened by them and often tried to suppress them.

A large scale opening of spirituality outside of the religious structures is an entirely new development. In the past this would have been inconceivable especially in the west, the most mind dominated of all cultures, where the Christian church had a virtual franchise on spirituality. You couldnt just stand up and give a spiritual talk or publish a spiritual book unless you were sanctioned by the church. And if you were not, they would quickly silence you.

But now even within certain churches and religions there are signs of change. It is heart warming and one is grateful for even the slightest signs of openness, such as Pope John Paul ll visiting a mosque as well as a synagogue.

Partly as a result of the spiritual teachings that have arisen outside of the established religions, but also do to an influx of the ancient east and western teachings a growing number of followers of traditional religions are able to let go of identification with form, dogma and rigid belief systems and discover the original depth that is hidden within their own spiritual tradition, at the same time as they discover the depth within themselves.

They realise that how spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This in turn determines how you act in the world and interact with others.


Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth -
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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