Groups

  • Practicing Buddhism
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    Practicing Buddhism
    Status: Owner
    Description: Buddhism transforms many lives through its practical means. The Buddha's teaching enables us to see our potential, transform our experiences, motivate us, and most importantly, Enlighten Us to our true nature. </p> This group is open to share and discuss applying Buddhist teaching to everyday life. From the modern day Businessman to the ancient Monk, both can awaken equally in every day life or in a cave in the Himalayas. </p><p> Welcome to "Practicing Buddhism".</p>
  • Mysticism in World Religions
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    Mysticism in World Religions
    Status: Member
    Description: Every religion is made up of two wings, the orthodoxy and mysticism. The word orthodox from the Greek means “having the right opinion” from orthos = right, true or staight, and doxa =opinion, praise, related to dokein which means thinking. Accordingly the word orthodoxy typically means adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion. The word mysticism (from the Greek mystikos, an initiate of a mystry religion). This initiate is in the pursuit of communion with, identity with or conscious awareness of an ultimate Reality, Divinity, Spiritual Truth or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight. Mysticism usually centers on a practice or practices intended to nurture that experience or awareness. Mystic traditions generally form sub-currents within larger religious traditions - such as Kabbalah within Judaism , Sufism, within Islam, Vedanta within Hinduism, Christian mysticism within Christianity, Zen (Ch’an) within mainstream Buddhism and Taoism. The term '"mysticism'" is used to refer to beliefs and practices which go beyond the liturgical and devotional forms of worship of mainstream faith, often by seeking out inner or esoteric meanings of conventional religious doctrine. For example, Kabbalah (based in Judaism) seeks out deeper interpretations of the Torah, Sufism (in Islam) extends and amplifies the teachings of the Quran in the spirit of universal love, Vedanta reaches for the inner teachings of Hindu philosophy encapsulated in the Vedas. Mystics hold that there is a deeper or more fundamental state of existence beneath the observable, day-to day world of phenomena, and that in fact the ordinary world is superficial or epiphenomenal. This group, is for the mystics from every religion in order to reach this One and Universal fundamental state of existence in All the religions of the World.
  • Beliefnet Circle of Reason
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    Beliefnet Circle of Reason
    Category: General Discussion
    Status: Member
    Description: Beliefnet Circle of Reason (BCOR) is a virtual "local circle" of The Circle of Reason (www.circleofreason.org) -- a fellowship of the religious and non-religious who believe communal commitment to reason will transform the world. We are a truly ecumenical site to find, recruit, converse with and encourage -- from all walks of life, all biologies, all beliefs, all societies -- those who are your own kinsmen and kinswomen - the reasoning kind!
  • Meditation
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    Meditation
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is for guidance and encouragement for cultivating meditation skills and to increase understanding of the full richness of the practice of meditation and what it offers us. Get to know other people who are interested in meditation, and share and reflect on how it can help us experience greater clarity and balance in our lives.
  • Ideas for Peace, Healing and Unity
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    Ideas for Peace, Healing and Unity
    Status: Member
    Description: My goals are to provide a place: 1. to share perspectives and specific ideas that promote the goals of peace, healing and unity for individuals and society; 2. where people who have ideas for projects to promote these goals can network to develop and make their projects operational; 3. where information about resource materials and existing projects related to promoting peace, healing and unity can be shared. The focus of this group is on the sharing of helpful ideas, constructive dialogue and collaboration on projects promoting peace, healing and unity on an individual and societal level.