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The only problem with Vedism is that it is a
priestly religion for the elite, and so the average person can't relate to it.
It's merely worship without whatever awareness evolution might come from that
great word gnosis. The great thing about yoga which surely preceeded Vedism is
that it showed us the soma within rather than the soma without, while the
priests were still crushing it with stones, the yogi was making it with gall.
Whether something remains for a long time or dies off is merely and nothing
else, karma. Did it uplift the small and weak, and did it support self
exploration? for each new generation? And did it prevent the strong from
overreaching like Ravanas or Raams? Did the religion pacify the sphere, or did
it create more war and chaos. My guess is that those which promote the
greatest peace will have the greatest longevity, even though peace should be a
rare concept. No religion on earth rivals ________ for promoting peace. I
won't even say it. Substitute your favorite, and see if it's true.
On the other hand is the holy stupa of the
Vajrayana filled with relics and texts, all over the globe. Usually built to
last against change in a final irony, that memorials every where are built to
Shakyamuni and filled with relics the idea being to spread the Buddha's
teachings forward to the future Buddha's time. Hence the Matreya project
of Lama Zopa in India. If people aren't aware they tour bone relics from very
famous Buddhist personages. If you don't think you're a Buddhist then you must
see them, and then realize that you've already prolly seen them tour the world
before, and known some of these people firsthand in past lives I mean the sense
of dejavu is great.
As an aside, if you didn't know, stupas originally
were offerings made at the place of someone great's death. Later people made
stone cairns, and finally the process became ritualized for certain sages.
Finally stupa building is natural as many times walking in nature I have seen
small stone towers built as if merely to celebrate the beauty and present peace
of the participants. These spontaneous dedications to the now seem to be the
greatest and most open stupas, built as they were merely on impulse. It must
have been the very nature of the moment to have been worshipped as greatness. My
guess is the ritam or rigpa level was near the surface enough here to break
through.
Hinduism and Yoga weren't as accessable even a
hundred years ago for the inner explorer. Buddhism taught meditation
throughout most of the dark ages, so I wouldn't be surprised if many of you
already been there done that. At any rate. The religion will be preserved
which makes the most sense, and which offers the greatest umbrella. You
can decide yourself. If it works for you then the chances are that it can
work for someone else.
But will any religion outlast the psilocyben, the
mescaline, the dmt, the Chronic Mz. Mary Jane. Nah Mon, prolly not!
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