India and Spirituality

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India is the most "spiritual" country in the world. Its history goes back to the invention of writing, and the great sages, masters, saints, and teachers of India wrote some of the greatest classics, including the Upanishads.

I am a Christian, as well as a Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Kabbalist, and Sufi. My admiration for the profound traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism is enormous. The philosophy of reincarnation, believed by most Christians in the first century after Jesus, gives the fullest and most tenable explanation of suffering. The concept of polybiography has been embraced by almost all mystics, from all traditions and centuries. The other profound mystical teachings, about Mind, form a matrix for spiritual psychology.

The teachings of mystical "oneness" with a great Mind form a psychophilosophy that underlies a Way of life that is fulfilling, satisfying, and that creates happiness and contentment.

This Way is called "mysticism." And while there were many and brilliant mystics in Christianity (gnostics), Judaism (kabbalists), and Islam (sufis), the glowing luminaries of this tradition, its giants, were found in India, as the Hindu and Buddhist sages of compassion (Love). These masters set a beautiful example in caring, not only for human beings, but for all other sentient beings. Living in true ecospirituality, they understood principles that our planet desperately needs right now, when mindless, shallow, and cruel people are devastating the earth for money and profit. We need to resurrect their message that the entire world is sacred, that greed is a door to "hell," and that Love (compassion) is our destiny.
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