spiritually vs religion

[JEDIYoda]

We are not born spiritual...

 

[cabri]

This is very interesting topic and you can always talk.
Religion is an institution established by man for various reasons. Spirituality is born in a person and develops in the person.

Spirituality is a result of your environment and your reactions to it.

 

[Marius Dejess]

From my part I propose that spirituality is a broader topic than religion, and religion is a sub-topic of spirituality.

The way I see it, spirituality has to do with our behavior in mind, heart, and body that transcends what I call materiality.

And what is materiality?

Materiality is our behavior that has to do with our body in regard to biology and physiology, like for example with eating and yes, sexual activities, to keep alive and to contribute to the continuation of our species, and of course with carnal (read that sexual) pleasure; and also materiality has to do with our interest in the physical world, as distinct from the spiritual world -- I will now proceed to talk about what is spirituality, so that we can work together to concur on what is spirituality as distinct from religion or religiosity.


As I said at the start, "The way I see it, spirituality has to do with our behavior in mind, heart, and body that transcends what I call materiality."

See, dear colleagues here, whether you will agree with me, that spirituality is everything we behave on and act on, which behavior and action are not grounded on the three emotions ancient wisdom is always trying to move mankind to control, instead of being controlled by them, namely: lust, greed, and ambition.

So, when we are in control of our lust, our greed, and our ambition on the one hand, and more importantly we pursue liberation from gluttony and lust, from avarice, and from vanity and power over fellowmen, that is spirituality in essence; moreover, in specifics, we ordain our existence and life to occupy ourselves with cultivating knowledge and appreciation of the world that exists beyond the physical and the carnal.


Now religion, what is religion?

As I said earlier, religion is a sub-topic of spirituality, it consists in a systematized knowledge and practice of spirituality in a group of humans, the group can be a nation or can be just say a clan.


So, dear colleagues here, present your inputs on what is spirituality and what is religion, so that we can work to concur on a common concept respectively of spirituality and of religion, and put their definitions in a few concise, precise, and clear words

...give us your thoughts. spirituality is not any religion or doctrine. just the belief of meta physics so to say. taht would not actually be a valid description but i think you can guess what spirituality means.

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[norseamd]

From my part I propose that spirituality is a broader topic than religion, and religion is a sub-topic of spirituality.

Exactly.

The way I see it, spirituality has to do with our behavior in mind, heart, and body that transcends what I call materiality. And what is materiality? Materiality is our behavior that has to do with our body in regard to biology and physiology, like for example with eating and yes, sexual activities, to keep alive and to contribute to the continuation of our species, and of course with carnal (read that sexual) pleasure; and also materiality has to do with our interest in the physical world, as distinct from the spiritual world -- I will now proceed to talk about what is spirituality, so that we can work together to concur on what is spirituality as distinct from religion or religiosity.

Maybe on the surface, but that does not mean that it is that in reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_religion

 

[Marius Dejess]

What I like for us all to do is to think on the experience of mankind, on facts, and on logic, in order to come to concur on: what is this phenomenon called spirituality and what is this phenomenon called religion.

So, I would suggest that we do our very own personal thinking, grounding ourselves on our experience on what is man doing in the name of spirituality and in the name of religion.

Let us not go to writings of people not in this forum, that is to depend on their ideas but not on our very own personal thinking, as I said, grounding ourselves on our experience of the thoughts and acts of fellowmen, on facts, and on logic, to come to know what is spirituality and what is religion, and how we are to comport ourselves if we do have any spirituality and any religion at all.

If you want to bring in writings of others and published in any way by any means, it must be to criticize their ideas: as to present what you see to be in agreement with your own thinking, or not in agreement, and inform readers here why you do not agree with these authors, even though they might be best sellers -- but recall that best sellers' works are not necessarily of any useful and insightful thoughts, for in many instances they just happen to get popularized because they are propounding what is the current trend in the world of the herds.

 

[mammador]

Spirituality is innate, religion is man-made.

Any rules of the church or temple or mosque are just what priests think is good.