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RE: I believe in holy things - Part 1: A visit to a Buddhist temple
Beautiful post, Kurt. I'm kind of enthralled with this concept of "believing in holy things", and the way it is expressed--not "I believe that x is holy", but just believing that holy things exist. I think I do believe in holy things. Thank you.
My pleasure Starr Maybe after some consideration you can tell us what the phrase might mean to you.
I really like the other world analogy your friend made. (Or maybe it wasn't an analogy, but a matter of belief.) I think things can become holy when they have been imbued with residual energy from loving human attention or intention. It may also help to be ancient or awe-inspiring in some way. But perhaps some things are just naturally holy without or before having been attended to. Like the moon, or a rock formation. When ancient people worshipped the moon, did they make it holy by worshipping it, or was their worship in response to the holiness it already possessed?
I think that to "believe in holy things" is to be open to those energies, and perhaps to be able to feel a connectedness with--maybe not the object itself, but the human attention that went into making a thing holy, or the cosmic confluence that produced a thing. It is to stand in the significance of the universe and to swim in the wonder of it all.