Im in love with my church because the fact is that we accept everyone no matter what.However Im thinking right now about adding some Zen sittings into my time structure along with church.

I love my church but tehre is one problem. I do miss the structure, discipline and direction of the Christian church. Its like not long ago in church we started singing out of a hymnal a song and this guy started a s a joke singing over everyone going LALALALALA instead of the worda and laughign and we have stuff like that go on all the time not everyones doign teh same thing some partake in the rituals some not, we all do our own thing and its awesome, in one way wqe need our UU because its the one place where everyone is like tottally accepted! I need a church where someone like taht guy can go in and be tottalloy irreverant towards religiona nd still be accepted. I do ahve to say though, that I miss being guided and directed by a  chruch where everyone is on the same note were all doing the same thing together and being a family.

Howcver, Im not willing to leave UU for that I love my church too much! I love watching starngers just walk in off the street and know they will be accepted its awesome!

So Im thinking right now about going back to Zen instead and adding ti to my UU church. Zen is cool because theyre accepting of everyone, all religions are accepted, but at the same time tehres structure to the sitting. When you walk you pretty much have to go by theyrer rituals everyone takes theyre shoes off we have to be quite we have to bow when we walk in and go by the timeline the bells that go off tell us when to sit and then we sit and stay stilla nd eprfectly quite for 30 minutes at a time. At the end of some services we have chanting and tea rituals its ahave to not optional you go by thei rituals when you go in. So there is structure there, so Im thinking Im ay start going back to that twice a month along with my UU church.

Its a cool way of being tolerant open and accepting of all religions and being able to be directed and get structure at the same time.

Zen sounds like a great way to put more structure into your life, Rider.

Does your UU church let such groups do their thing in the church building of an evening or weekend? Each UU church I was a member of had a Zen group that did sits regularly at our church even though only a very few people in the group also were members of or went to our church. People might come to watch at certain times. Then, one church had someone from the Zen group demonstrate how to do simple Zen meditations after a service every so often for those who were interested.

If your church doesn't do anything like that, maybe after you get into the Zen group you could see about bringing the group into your church. That could be really great for other people and you, too.

We can sit back and see what happens or we can take action then see the results.  Some might say nothing will happen unless we take the first step..  Sit or act -- the choice is yours.

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