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My Belief In Higher Power Research Paper

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Religion is the belief in a higher power, by higher power I mean something something superhuman or inhuman, that is worshipped, followed, and cherished as the almighty guiding light or pathway through life and afterlife. Religion is the practicing of following a guiding figure or higher power. Religious guidance may occur with or without a God, but regardless of whether a God is present or not in the specific religion being practiced or not, it is still a belief in something superhuman, generally a higher power or purpose found in something inhumane. Religion gives that higher power or guiding figures supreme importance and significant to the community which follows. In some sense, religion is the bonding, and sometimes even the controlling, …show more content…

I, too, had to set aside the idea that all religions cherish, worship, and follow only one guiding figure or higher power. I can say that nationality was a difficult thing for me to bracket, but I knew that choosing Buddhism as the religion I wanted to experience on my field trip would mean being around people who were of different ethnicities. Although I tried to bracket everything that I could, I knew that some of my baggage would be the style of religious services I am used to seeing on TV and hearing about from family and friends. I am used to a gathering with almost equal amounts of men and women. I knew that the religion I chose to study would not provide the same atmosphere. I am used to religious services involving people wearing clothes that do not show much skin, however, I have never been to a service where men would be dressed in the type of garment they do as Buddhists. It was very difficult for me to try to relate to their way of dressing and the specific group of people who gathered. With bracketing nationalities and difference in color, being mainly the only darker-skinned person in the room, it was …show more content…

He spoke of nature overloads the room and how they become whole with each other’s bodies and minds when silencing themselves. He talked about how diseases rise in the head. He spoke of walking and sitting meditation. He spoke of how walking meditation links sitting meditation and daily life. He says it allows people to stay focus. Reverend Lee says there is no need to rush and that there is a direction of walking meditation, which is to come back to present time. It is not a mean to an end and it is practiced only for the sake to bring one to their present moments, unlike sitting meditation. Walking meditation allows one not to lose their present moment. He was speaking of Dharma, I was told. Reverend Lee spoke of one being fully present in all of their current moments and how people aspire so much that they forget to be present in their moments happening currently, but walking meditation prevents that. People drift in thought often and with walking meditation things that often go unnoticed in the present moment are

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