You humans are too credulous!
In Vayrajana (Tibetan Buddhism), they have four lineages, each of which has it'S own master-Buddhist. for the Gelupas it is the famous Dalai Lama. For the Kagyupas, it is the so-called Karmapa. When a Karmapa died in past time, it was a habit to burn his body, which is okay for me. But that after the fire is out, followers searched desperately the ashes to find pieces of small bones, declare them a holy relic and a.) spend the rets of their life worshipping it, or b.) sell it for riodiculous sums of money to easy-minded believers, is not okay and in fact brings the whole idea of a fire for funeral to collapse. Magical rituals, superstitious nonsens.
Your Gods, so you believe, have created you, so they have given you all your abilities and potentials. If they do so, do you think they depend on you little worms saying thanks? What value could it have to them, if you appreciate their deeds, or not? Do you think they have given you your human abilities and creative sparks, your mind to learn and think reasonably and your body to make physical perceptions and get you moving around - for wasting all this and even reject it for making your "spiritual" gymnastics every day? Is your idea of God so limited and small that you think He even cares for your pathetic little efforts? Do you think your God is a character written and designed by some hysteric screenplay writer for a hysteric daily soap? that has to obey your own moral rules? What if your God turns out to be a man-eater - still worhsipping him? How small, how little, how unimportant, how meaningless you Gods appear to me. - If you want to worship what is Devine to you, live your life to the fullest, use the gifts and potentials given to you, and make something of it and use it to the best of yourself and the best of all men. Don't allow your potentials being limited by your man-thought little "religion", close your holy books and burn them for they are manmade things only, no trace of holiness in them, resist all doings that leads to the harm of others, fight those that violate this law, and never stop to be what you are: a human being, great in mind and possebility of self-reflection, each one unique in itself and still embraced by all that is not himself, capable to do what is of light, or what is of shadow - the choice and the karmic consequences are yours.
You people are suffering from a serious lack of self-confidence, and try to compensate that by following a self-declared superior morality. But you have all what you ever could need already inside you, since always, for always. If only you would know! All the shine is inside of you!
When I was a schoolboy, age 17, I think, I had written a certain poem. Maybe I shouldn't have written it at all, for it caused me quite some trouble, but I did, and this is it - some basic ideas always have been on my mind, since my early childhood, it seems.
Quote:
Sind wirklich Welten vergangen in meinem Leben,
in all jenen Meeren aus Leere und silberner Sterne Schein?
Ich folgte Kometen, Asteroidenschwärmen,
umkreiste in tausend Millarden Jahren das Universum -
wie lang hast du gebraucht, o Seele,
die richtigen Fragen zu stellen?
Denn uns ist gewährt die kosmische Schau
mit blinden Augen -
nicht zu blenden vom Gleiss unzähliger Sonnen.
Und doch wolln wir zählen der Welten Funken,
sie greifen und halten wie wenn's Glühwürmchen wärn,
in einer lauen Spätsommernacht.
Wie gross unser Geist,doch wie klein unser Handeln!
Schaut auf zu den Himmeln:
die Nova von Auriga
scheint uns Hundert Tausend Jahre.
Und säh' sie der Menschen Wimmeln,
wie's sich närrisch zu seinen Göttern erhebt,
blickte sie auf zu den Sternen,
und es berührte sie nicht.
Weil wir nicht richten unser Tun
am kosmischen Wandel,
hörn wir im Hintergrund gutmütig
des Universums schallendes Lachen...!
Die Welt ist ein Traum, den sie träumt,
und so wir denn finden, was wir suchen,
werden wir nicht länger mehr sein.
Weil wir denn folgten dem Ruf der Sterne,
sei uns auch schließlich der Mut gewährt,
zwischen ihnen
uns selbst
gegenüberzutreten.
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