Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "budhism"

I don’t have time to explain basic science,
I don’t have time to explain
why vaccines are crucial,
why the earth is not flat.

I don’t have time to explain basic theology,
I don’t have time to explain why
no religion is truer than another,
and why belief as coping mechanism is okay,
but belief mustn’t be confused with truth.

For example, if you wanna talk facts,
most scientific religion is buddhism,
for much of buddhist literature is basic psychology,
sure, all religious meanderings occasionally
align with modern science, but no theology
is more aligned with modern science than buddhism –

likewise, most nonviolent religion is jainism,
to harm even a fly is sin in jainism –
and most charitable religion is sikhism,
nobody goes hungry where there is a sikh langar,
that too without being converted into a sikh.

There are two kinds of divinity in the world,
doctrinal divinity and human divinity –
doctrinal divinity is less holy, more prejudice,
whereas human divinity prioritizes humanity.

There are two kinds of truth in the world,
empirical truth and human truth –
empirical truth is all about facts,
human truth is more than facts –
human truth applies facts wisely among other
instruments to uplift human condition.