Can man's organized religions ever lead to true enlightenment?
just found a group "Monks Without Borders." A bunch of religiously inspired people who go out and do "good" where they are, as they can. Noble and all that, but does it come with a dose of their versions of "God" in the process?
I have to wonder.
I am afraid that history will show that mankind ideas about religion have always gotten in the way of true personal growth. This is why the greatest teacher of our world so far, the Buddha, chose to dump all religion in favour of a non-religiously based field of self-discovery. religion is a wonderful way to present rules and regulations to enslave a population to lazy to think for itself, but it is not an answer for those truly seeking self-knowledge, and the eventual loss of self thst comes from that growth.
You see- self-awareness is the ultimate form of selfishness and ego- vanity to such a scale it cannot be described by mere words. It is the release of that non-belonging that brings true enlightenment.When one finally grasps the connectedness of all things, and understands that not only do we all -ALL- some from the Source, but that we are in fact made of exactly the same thing.
My biggest problem in the last decade has been to let others come to this understanding in their own time. I am impatient beyond all reason to get the hell off this mortal plane and back to the business of my real existance, and someone or thing just simply will not let me go! I am waiting for that someone or thing to tell me WHY.
I seriously doubt it will be Monks without Borders, however.