{"id":3345,"date":"2018-02-22T20:36:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruquote.net\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:37:51","slug":"organized-religions-political-zen-non-political-religiousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruquote.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/organized-religions-political-zen-non-political-religiousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized religions are political. Zen is a non-political religiousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<p>Organized religions are political. Zen is a non-political religiousness. You cannot call it even religion. It is so individualistic and so emphatically concerned only with the potential of the individual. It does not want anything from the individual, it simply wants him to be himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-image-obj motopress-text-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruquote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/osho-1.jpg?fit=1600%2C1046&ssl=1\" title=\"osho\" alt=\"When you are a master of your own being, then you live in the same world but with totally different eyes -- the same world becomes divine. That is the meaning of the declaration of Zen Masters: samsara IS nirvana -- this very world is enlightenment. 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