Tidbits of Comparative Religion

Tidbits of
COMPARATIVE RELIGION
Divergent views of Maya ... The Stuff of our lives.

ATHEISM
Stuff just happens!

AGNOSTICISM
Is stuff real, or not?

BUDDHISM
When stuff happens, it really isn't stuff.

CATHOLICISM
Stuff happens because you're bad.

CALVINISM
Stuff happens because you don't work hard enough.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Stuff happens only in your mind.

CONFUCIANISM
Confucius say, "Watch stuff happen."

EVANGELISM
Give us lots of money or stuff will happen to you.

EXISTENTIALISM
This is all my stuff.

HARE KRISHNAS
Stuff! Stuff! Rama! Rama!

HEDONISM
Only good stuff happens.

HINDUISM
This stuff happened before.

ISLAMISM
When stuff happens, it's Allah's will.

JANISM
Watch your step ... don't step on stuff.

JEHOVAH'S WITNESS
Let us in and we'll explain why stuff happens to you.

JUDAISM
Why does stuff always happen to us?

MOONYISM
Only happy stuff happens.

MORMANISM
This stuff is going to happen, again.

PROTESTANISM
Stuff happens to everybody but us.

RASTAFARIANISM
Let's smoke this stuff.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISM
Stuff shouldn't happen on Saturday.

SIKHISM
All stuff comes from God. All stuff goes to God.

STOICISM
Stuff is good for us.

SUFISM
Religion is stuff.

TAOISM
Stuff happens ... let it be.

ZENISM
What is the sound of stuff happening?

ZOROASTRIANISM
Stuff happens only half the time.

Science and practice of meditation and its benefits

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Religion according to George Carlin

What happens when you meditate

American Muslim's view of Islam

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Hymns of Guru Gobind Singh

Hymns of Guru Ram Das

The Essence, You are IT

Americans and religion

WHAT IS MAYA?

Maya is God's play. When you see God's
play through the Maya, it's called Liberation.
But you can't do anything to earn it or to buy it.
Liberation, like birth, occurs only by God's Grace.

"Like the raging fire of the womb within, is the
fire of Maya without: Both are alike, for both
are the plays of the Creator. When the Lord
wills, one is born into the world, to the great
joy of his relations. And then one is no longer
in tune with the Lord, and greed takes hold. Thus
Maya's play begins. This illusion of Maya makes us
forget the Lord, and love for the other fills our mind.
Those who live in the love of the Lord, through the
Guru's Grace, find the Lord in the midst of Maya." --
Siri Guru Granth Sahib, 3rd Guru, Guru Amar Das
From the Peace Lagoon - Anand Sahib - Verse 29

"The Lord Himself is the Father and the Mother, who
created creatures so that they might see the world.
When one realizes the reality, by the Grace of the Guru,
one comes to know that this world is a mere show.
Sayeth Nanak: Thus the Creator created all of the
universe, putting His light into every being." --
Siri Guru Granth Sahib, 3rd Guru, Guru Amar Das
From the Peace Lagoon - Anand Sahib - Verse 33

"God is nothing but your own inner consciousness.
Now I will agree with you that you cannot always
feel this God, but that is because you think that you
are separate from God. We call it Maya. Maya is the
illusion of separateness: it is the quicksand of this life.
Sometimes we sink into this quicksand and then we
need a hook; we need some guidance to help us pull
ourselves out so that we can continue our journey.
The hook that we use to do this is called the Guru." --
Yogi Bhajan, the Siri Singh Sahib of Sikh Dharma