Sacredness
I hear that word all the time in religious gatherings.
What is sacred? What is holy? What is sacrosanct?
I don’t know. 🙂
That word must be something important. I need to find out. Let me look that word up in the dictionary.
According to the on-line Google dictionary:
Adjective
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Because I know something about duality, I can see that this word is dividing something “Godly” with something “secular,” that is; non-religious, worldly stuff.
Then, the problem arises when we want to pursue that which is “holy” and reject or put aside that which is not.
The issue is that our society, our traditions will choose that which is “holy” as the important thing.
Is the temple “holier” than my office at work?
Is the church sacred and not my apartment?
Is God deserving veneration but not Nature?
Is a ritual, something which God may need or like from us?
We can see how by inventing a word to convey “higher importance” than the other things, we have separated items which otherwise are just the same.
This is the origin of worship. The origin of devotion.
What is the sense of having devotion for something or someone?
Our sense of inferiority. We can call that with the nicer label of “love.”
However, love is not between an inferior and a superior. Love is between equals and that is why, devotion cannot be love.
Equality. We know that we are souls. Even God is a soul. That is our equality.
When we accept a tradition and perform a particular ritual, we may need to ask ourselves what is the point on that.
If we don’t, we may not be venerating the sacredness of our valuable time.
The universe is holy. Life is holy. Sacred. No need to be divided by a dualistic mind.
Exploring the Depth of Living 
om shanti brother, if one defines holy as pure (as we do over here), define pure as with higher vibrations, then I do see a difference between church and home / bk centre and many homes: more peace just because of absence of television, newspapers, fights etc. We aim to become lighter don’t we?
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Pure and impure. More duality. If you choose “pure” you will reject “impure.” You will avoid “impure.”
Are things impure by itself?
Purity is a state of being, not a place. Because the soul is beyond duality, then purity… the one that you refer to is not related with duality but with a state of being beyond those opposites.
For a “pure being” there is no difference in “purity” between a house and church, when he/she is purity itself.
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