I spend time in the mountains, preferably skiing. Sometimes alone, sometimes with other beings. That's enough for me.
On January 14, 2024 1:36:57 AM PST, Venkatesh Hariharan via Silklist <silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2:04 PM Peter Griffin via Silklist < >silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > >> Many years ago, when I worked with Forbes India, as part of an anniversary >> special, we commissioned an essay by Alain de Botton on a ‘religion for >> atheists’ (he has of course written and spoken about this extensively >> elsewhere). >> https://www.forbesindia.com/article/ideas-to-change-the-world/alain-de-botton-a-religion-for-atheists/13532/1 >> >> I just came across this. >> https://theconversation.com/church-without-god-how-secular-congregations-fill-a-need-for-some-nonreligious-americans-215749 >> >> I resonate with the thought. After beginning my walk away from >> Christianity in my teens and twenties, and all religion some time after, >> there have been many times I missed some of the peripheral things about >> religion. The sense of community, the places of contemplative silence, the >> art, the music. >> >> What do you folk — believers or otherwise — think? >> >> ~ peter >> >> Having grown up with an atheist father, I find myself more spiritual than >religious. Personally, I have never felt the need for a "religion for >atheists." I have dabbled in Osho's meditations at the resort in Pune, >Vipassana meditation at Igatpuri and have liked them all but don't follow >them systematically. Some of my friends are similar in that they are more >religious than spiritual. I have often taken breaks with them to an ashram >in Bhaja, near Lonavala in Maharashtra. Though the ashram is Buddhist, they >do not impose their practices on us when we visit and our trips involve >sitting quietly in the meditation hall, bird watching, trekking, admiring >the flora and fauna, cooking and eating the locally grown produce, cleaning >the ashram, and long conversations. I find that fulfilling in a wonderful >way. > >Venky
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