Approaches to religion | Vividness

mind, same mind, just different narratives woven around it. Inherently, this mind cannot be confined to any one group or tradition. Words cannot describe it. Nonetheless they are helpful. Without my tradition, I would not have the language to share anything; and language provides a context for these experiences. Without context, experience alone of

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And it is not just your lonely trip, but somebody has done it already. Somebody has the idea and the information and the lineage behind it. So there is a sense of the warmth of the guru, helper, spiritual friend, elder, master, medicine man, or whatever you’d like to call it. Finally, you come down to earth, where those experiences are not all that

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Usually, one has an attitude toward something or someone. Again, this is key for tantra. While some Buddhisms emphasize objectless emptiness, tantra is about this world and its inhabitants. While the Buddhas of the other leading brands sit around in the sky being holy, tantric Buddhas act . They act on the basis of their “attitude toward.”

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For humanistic psychology ... religious experience is a direct feeling, rather than the discovery of objective truths. The essential feeling is a oneness overcoming all inner and outer divisions.

However, [according to] the Dharma ... the ultimate religious experience, Awakening, is something else entirely. It is described, not in terms of feeling,

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