The Religious Mind Is Explosive Can we discover for ourselves what is the religious mind ? The scientist in his/her laboratory is really a scientist ; he/she is not persuaded by his/her nationalism , by his/her fear , by his/her vanities , ambitions , and local demands ; there , he/she is merely investigating . But outside the laboratory , he/she is like anybody else with his/her prejudices , with his/her ambitions , with his/her nationality , with his/her vanities , with his/her jealousies , and all the rest of it . Such a mind cannot approach the religious mind . The religious mind does not function from a center of authority , whether it is accumulated knowledge as tradition , or it is experience---which is really the continuation of tradition , the continuation of conditioning . The religious spirit does not think in terms of time , the immediate results , the immediate reformation within the pattern of society---We said the religious mind is not a ritualistic mind ; it does not belong to any church , Mosque , temple , to any group , to any pattern of thinking . The religious mind is the mind that has entered into the unknown , and you cannot come to the unknown except by jumping ; you cannot carefully calculate and enter the unknown . The religious mind is the real revolutionary mind , and the revolutionary mind is not a reaction to what has been . The religious mind is really explosive , creative---not in the accepted sense of the word CREATIVE , as in a poem , decoration , or building , as in architecture , music , poetry , and all the rest of it ---it is in a state of creation ....
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:53:27 +0000
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