Buddhist Temple Visit

Every religion offers answers to some of the unanswerable questions. Religion resolves mysteries and explain the unknown. Some religions do this more than others. In Buddhism, however, the big question 'Where do we come from, what gave life to us' remains unanswered, since they have no God, or creator to whom this credit is given. However, Buddhists believe that religion is the reason and purpose of living, and that therefore, life should revolve around it. Buddhists spend their lifetime trying to find themselves, to be enlightened. I personally ask myself what they wish to be enlightened for, since by the time they achieve this, life is over. To Buddhists, however, life is not the important part of their journey. The achieving of and arriving in Nirvana is what one is to seek and be enlightened for.

Nature obviously plays its part in life. And and our more industrialized, technological times much less so, but back in the days when religions like Taoism were founded, nature was of such vital importance, that it is what they learned to love and worship. Trees, plants, animals, rivers and seas have allowed the human along with everything else which is still alive on planet Earth, to survive. It used to mean everything to humans and (even though we've started to hide ourselves behind our computer screens and televisions) it's still a life signifying resource for us, and we use it in our everyday lives. We need nature. Nature, however, doesn't need us. - I think its this life importance and reliance which we have upon nature that forces us to wonder why we're here and what our propose is, and which then again leads us back to our way of thinking and explaining mysteries.