After spending the morning in nature and a beautiful Buddhist Temple in harmony with my friends and classmates this automatically made me think of the origin of our seeking of religion, or the answers to life. Some people dedicate decades to the search of answers, and some never even find some. But so often people manage to find themselves, and by practicing meditation and rituals of repeated prayer and bowing also find answers to some of these questions. But why look for answers anyway? I think that it is our fascination for nature and creation that leaves us speechless. We are overwhelmed by the perfection, and even though we can explain the function or role of elements in nature through our scientific knowledge, we cannot explain how these creations even started existing, and this exact lack of knowledge leads to our need to look for these answers.
So as in Buddhism, meditation is one of the keys to find some of these answers. Meditation is an individual journey to our soul, and to what lays behind it. We find out who we are, where we come from, and if we even manage to reach this stage in the first place, some are able to find out secrets of creation. This is a process that requires an immense amount of work and dedication, but in the end, personally I am not quite sure if it is worth it. While people spend so much time thinking about creation or where the beauty of nature and its mind-blowing creations come from, why don’t they rather interact with it? What better way to get as much out of it as to spend time with it, to live life to the fullest out in nature, in the creation of some upper being? However I really think that it is this fascination for nature and the things about it that we cannot explain that make people seek out religion, the fact that our human world does not contain enough might to create such captivating things, that we believe there must be a higher power.
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