Which is more a more beneficial way to progress toward personal and spiritual enlightenment?
2007-04-16 07:46:35 · 15 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I really have no need for religion but what one does it what matters.
2007-04-16 07:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The following is the only True progress toward personal and spiritual enlightenment (beleive me, Jesus did, Buddha did, I did, you can to):
Create a private, personal, direct, divine Relationship with Our Creator and save your Soul from religion.
Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!
Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
2007-04-16 14:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by drwooguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely by what we do! We are our brothers' keeper! We must speak out for the less fortunate and for the oppressed.
The crisis situation of the day is occurring in Darfur, Sudan where thousands are dying and being displaced in the first genocide of the millennium. Why isn't it headline news? Will the world be indifferent to it as they were to the Holocaust?
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2007-04-16 14:52:22 · answer #3 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I define my religion by my way of life. The things you learn. The things you apply. How you think. How you act especially in private more than in public.
2007-04-16 14:55:40 · answer #4 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither! True enlightenment comes when 'The Light' Himself - the Lord Jesus Christ is living inside of you by His Spirit. What we do or don't do are by-products of that. No one can find spiritual enlightment through what they do.
2007-04-16 14:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actions speak louder than words. I think it's better to focus on the positive, what good things you can do in life than to define yourself by what you don't do.
2007-04-16 14:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more that actions, it's beliefs too. And I think it is just as important to not do the things your religion tells you not to do, as it is to do the things it says you should. For instance, if I cheat on my wife, what kind of example would I be able to set for my friends and family if I wanted to lead them to Christ?
2007-04-16 14:52:03 · answer #7 · answered by Curtis B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a member of the Islamic community, I'd say both, the things I do (learn Qur'an, salah, zakat.....) and things I don't do (frequent bars, steal...).
Both helps in spritual and personal enlightment.
2007-04-16 15:10:04 · answer #8 · answered by سيف الله بطل جهاد 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I define my 'spritual enlightenment' by whom I know!
Jesus.
What I do and don't do don't enlighten me, they are a biproduct of my relationship with Him.
2007-04-16 14:51:05 · answer #9 · answered by dreamair 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I don't define myself. Never really had the need to.
2007-04-16 14:49:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋