Satori

All religions state that theirs is the real path to salvation, liberation and nirvana. They claim that they can teach you proven and effective ways to attain it. Amidst all this cacophony, the voice of the soul is silenced and remains unheard, in the quest for the meaning of life.

There are various religious narratives to arrive at this liberation of the self- some involve unusual rituals albeit they claim it has miraculous power to attain spiritual fulfillment and meaning in our dreary lives .

All the paths in the religious world are meaningless without the essential idea of what salvation or nirvana is?

All of them use this USP to promote a glamorized form of faith, with a mystical juxtaposition of hollow words – moksha, liberation, salvation, nirvana and satori - scriptural semantics?

They all try to breathe life into something that holds no promise of existence a sort of shadowy platonism – a doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their different names, with a variety of esoteric meanings.

People and believers wait for that magical moment forever-singing hymns, paeans to god and goddesses, and there is a sort of religiously intellectual vanity in the entire process- a choreographed irrational dance of the dervishes.

So let me also propound the ultimate way to create instant satori, with phenomenal results. Doing absolutely nothing is the most appropriate mean for spiritual ascent. Go back into your inner house and spend time with someone you haven’t met for a long time: your inner self.

Surrender to the silence, though it may be hard to comprehend it initially because it is the way of peace. Celebrating the inner environment and exalting life with nature- bereft of religious paraphernalia and invocations to the divine. This is the actual Zen state devoid of all sound for that healing hush of satori