religious avalanche?

[genkaku]

With hard times gaining a foothold around the world, do you think we are in for an eruption of religious and quasi-religious activity? I sort of think so: As Mark Twain observed, "Religion is the best business in the world."

[Prasadachitta]

Maybe it wont be all bad.

[Jechbi]

Well, people have to do something with their time and their anxiety, I guess.

[laura]

With hard times gaining a foothold around the world, do you think we are in for an eruption of religious and quasi-religious activity? I sort of think so: As Mark Twain observed, "Religion is the best business in the world."

Are you suggesting that the masses need opiates right now? You may just be right. At least some of it will be good medicine... I hope!

[Ngawang Drolma.]

I read something somewhere that religion has really been on the rise in the US in recent years.

Sorry to be so vague with this comment

[genkaku]

I read something somewhere that religion has really been on the rise in the US in recent years.

Sorry to be so vague with this comment

I agree with you Drolma ... for equally vague reasons.

But I wonder to what extent that rise -- in the recent years of great affluence -- is based on having too MUCH stuff, rather than too little ... and then realizing that stuff doesn't really make you all that happy. I believe I have read studies that after the basic needs were attained, the rest simply did not increase the happiness level.

[mudra]

But I wonder to what extent that rise -- in the recent years of great affluence -- is based on having too MUCH stuff, rather than too little ... and then realizing that stuff doesn't really make you all that happy. I believe I have read studies that after the basic needs were attained, the rest simply did not increase the happiness level.

Most of the time, once basic needs are covered, the rest probably are the cause for stress!

Like when you park your porsche outside a cafe and someone walks by and keys the paint job (fortunately this has never happened to me because, um.... I don't frequent cafes?).

[Cittasanto]

With hard times gaining a foothold around the world, do you think we are in for an eruption of religious and quasi-religious activity? I sort of think so: As Mark Twain observed, "Religion is the best business in the world."

off topic to a degree but remembered this video on youtube I posted on my blog yesterday, which has some relevance to the OP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybAUM7Ko ... annel_page

[nathan]

But I wonder to what extent that rise -- in the recent years of great affluence -- is based on having too MUCH stuff, rather than too little ... and then realizing that stuff doesn't really make you all that happy. I believe I have read studies that after the basic needs were attained, the rest simply did not increase the happiness level.

Most of the time, once basic needs are covered, the rest probably are the cause for stress!

Like when you park your porsche outside a cafe and someone walks by and keys the paint job (fortunately this has never happened to me because, um.... I don't frequent cafes?).

As a former Porsche practitioner my observation is that the Porsche community is adequately equipped to meet any such challenges to it's sacraments and relics. I only widely noted even my comparatively hinayana porsche vehicles being taken up ignorantly as objects of worship by both Porsche and non-Porsche disciples as opposed to serving as a cause for generating ill will.

[Ben]

A very good friend and co-meditator, sent me this poem yesterday.

(from Hafiz: 'Cast All Your Votes for Dancing")

'Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days
Like a broken man
Behind a farting camel.'