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blazeofglory
09-03-2009, 05:57 AM
I drink a soup of spirituality everyday, and of course J Krishnamurti fills the cup of my spirituality. I never get tired of reading him.

I choose to read the types that untangle me.

Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Sufism are some of the ones that transformed me.

Khalil Gibran was a poet that helped me unlearn all my superstitious beliefs.

Kabir is such a poet whose ideas are free of all kinds of communal, religious and nationalistic sentiments. He rose above all religious boundaries.

This is not a sectorist idea. I am a secularist and can feel comfortable with all religious people but not with their bigotries and fundamentalist ideas.

All of us are a bit of the spiritualist, if not religious. Spiritualism has little to do with religious questions that spur conflict and violence.

Spirituality is something that unifies us across all religious and racial boundaries and economic geographies.

Geographies, economics, political and nationalistic boundaries melt down here.

All shake hands and hug here. No one is an outsider. Let us forget we are Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Jews, Chinese American and the like.

Why cannot we be humans? Sheer humans unmasking ourselves.

As pure and unsullied as a newly born baby, and unadulterated and powerful as flames of fire.

Are all of us expecting a new prophet who teaches no new religion but spirituality?

Red-Headed
09-03-2009, 07:26 AM
I tend to go for minestrone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MinestroneSoup.jpg)

NikolaiI
01-17-2010, 05:13 AM
My spiritual soup is Sri Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa (The Mother), Black Elk, Swami Vivekananda, Alan Watts, Rumi, Milarepa,

the scriptures of the Buddhism, among them;

The Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Sutra; The Prajnaparamita-Hrdaya Sutra; The Bhaisajyaraja Sutra; Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra, or the Diamond Sutra; The Dhammapada...

Emerson, and various other authors and writers.

wlz
01-25-2010, 01:57 AM
I work off an old 1950s manuscript intended for students in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. I also find the Goetia, (the lesser king of solomon the king), the Oui Ja board, and Tarot cards help to raise a few hairs.

The Comedian
01-25-2010, 02:42 PM
Me: I make a base-stock of curiosity and playfulness. Then I add Thoreau, Merton, Wordsworth, Whitman as my assorted chopped vegetables. For meat, I add generous portions of clean air and physical exercise.

My spoon is reverence. And my bowl is humility.

Dinkleberry2010
01-25-2010, 03:21 PM
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