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“RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY”

Religion and spirituality are completely different things.

Religion divides inherently perfect beingness into “good” and “evil” based on separation as relative duality caused by visual and tactile information, and on a one-sided value system by unconscious, immature perception.

In this way, while preaching love and peace, on the other hand, it also unknowingly but constantly sows and plants the seeds of conflict (hatred, superiority or inferiority, etc.).

Its awareness is endlessly flat (good or evil, internal conflict, contradiction), always within a mutually complementary dualistic relativity.

On the other hand, spirituality, through inquirying deep the self inwardly to uncover the roots of the various conflicts that arise from the misperception (separation) of the self as personal, reveals complete immutableness, its non-duality of absolute reality as wholeness that transcends all that can be seen or touched.

In this way, it transcendently leads people to the silence, serenity that is the impersonal essence.

The truth does not depend on any doctrine, ritual, or knowledge (concepts, ideas); it is seen through only to each individual through the clarity of the innermost stillness; it can never be taught.

Its awareness as openness goes far beyond being merely three-dimensional (transcending boundaries such as good and evil, or the individual).

It always has space to humbly learn from all beings, and yet it comes to transcend (expansion, deepening, omnipresence) into a consciousness as “pure beingness” that encompasses everything, including the unknown.

It is never about becoming superior to someone else, or becoming a better being.

The moment the awareness sees through the fact with its clarity that there is no such thing as “someone” or “oneself” as a person, its realization unavoidably makes the awareness transcend those invisible boundaries (conditions, or the illusion of duality).

In that non-duality, there can be no comparison.

Whether negative or positive, they do not exist in isolation, nor is there any special value attached to either.

Just like clouds in the sky, they merely appear and disappear.

No matter what duality is, all logic collapses in non-duality.

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The more closed one’s heart, the less one can learn anything about profound spirituality from current themselves or those around them. Instead, they try to solve everything with the mind (ego, disguised as goodness, illusion), in their heads.

The mind (ego) may say, “I know,” “I understand,” or “I comprehend better than anyone,” and it may preach about love, peace, or righteousness, but its words and reactions are always dogmatic and self-righteous anyhow.

The mind (ego) easily denies and criticizes those who do not share its values, sometimes even discriminating (even involving verbal or physical violence), while at the same time justifying itself by thinking it performimg good deeds, and thereby it creates various conflicts.

However, because the mind (ego) is unaware of its own dogmatic and self-righteous nature, it only strengthens its attachment to “good” or “control to be better,” and its attachment further prevents it from facing the facts squarely.

There is nothing there but only a fear of disappearing of the self (i.e., losing meaning) that arises from identifying with the personal mind (ego) that one believes to be oneself as attachment.

And therefore, by gathering together with like-minded people, it makes much easier for the mind (ego) to continually turn a blind eye to its own self-deception each other as mutually complementary.

Whether it is good or evil, the growing flow of something disguised as something within relative duality will eventually reach a saturation point and sooner or later lead to internal conflict, separation, and ultimately collapse.

In this process, nevertheless, those who carefully listen to the subtle sense of discomfort from within will, by continuing to turn their attention inward, eventually come to realize the baselessness of the mind (ego), its dogmatic and self-righteous nature, and will move toward spontaneous surrender the mind (ego) to the unknown.

At that time, because of its selflessness and egolessness, one will no longer be personal, and come to transform into the pure awareness, that is able to gratefully receive God’s grace, which is always there, without any intention or efforts.

That is called purification.

In this way, the catalyst for religion to transition to spirituality is always internal.

This is the law of nature (impermanence and permanence). (OM 🙏)