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Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.

The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena. Religious practice may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, or public service.

There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions—Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism—account for over 77% of the world's population, and 92% of the world either follows one of those four religions or identifies as nonreligious, meaning that the vast majority of remaining religions account for only 8% of the population combined. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists, and agnostics, although many in the demographic still have various religious beliefs. Many world religions are also organized religions, most definitively including the Abrahamic religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while others are arguably less so, in particular folk religions, indigenous religions, and some Eastern religions. A portion of the world's population are members of new religious movements. Scholars have indicated that global religiosity may be increasing due to religious countries having generally higher birth rates.

The study of religion comprises a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for its origins and workings, including the ontological foundations of religious being and belief.

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Crafting Tradition: Personalizing Buddhist Practice

Religion, Ordination, Chanting, Balance, Beginners, Lay, Community, Realization, Pain...
Jul 25 1970

Observation of Precepts and Practice of Zazen is Same Thing

Serial: SF-06049

Sesshin Lecture No. 1
Saturday, August 1, 1970
San Francisco

Sesshin, Precepts, Precepts, Doubt, Buddha Nature, Faith, Ceremony, Ordination, Lay,...
Aug 01 1970
City Center

Priest Ordination Ceremony: Paul Discoe and Reb Anderson

Serial: SR-00069A

Reprocessed version may allow for clarification of transcript.

Priest, Ceremony, Precepts, Don't Know Mind, Delusion, Greed, Interview,...
Aug 09 1970
City Center

Embracing the Absolute Self

Discrimination, Religion, Patience, Enthusiasm, Chanting, difficulty, Suffering,...
Aug 18 1970

Consecration Over Proclamation: Redefining Priesthood

Priest, Religion, Ego
Aug 19 1970
Mount Saviour Monastery

Zazen Harmony Through Emptiness

Posture, Hate, Bowing, Mahayana, Ceremony, Religion, Realization, Pain
Sep 15 1970

Roots of Zen: Unraveling Delusions

Birth-and-Death, Vow, Silence, Fasting, Anger, Lay, Community, Delusion, Religion,...
Sep 27 1970

Living Zen: Embodying Dharma Principles

Transmission, Meditation, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Hindrances, Samadhi,...
Dec 1970

Leaping Beyond Self: Zen Awakening

Concentration, Teacher-and-Student, Pain, confusion, Vow, Evil, Monastic Practice,...
Dec 05 1970

Embodying Enlightenment Through Daily Vows

confusion, Vow, Sanctuary, Consciousness, Mahayana, causation, Beginners, Silence,...
Dec 11 1970

Enlightenment: A Journey Beyond Attainment

Discrimination, Pain, Beginners, Buddha Nature, Religion, Interdependence, Lineage,...
1971

Transcending Duality Through Continuous Practice

Discrimination, Liberation, Religion, Building
Mar 23 1971

Finding Completeness in Each Step

Religion
Mar 27 1971

Rooting Zen: Beyond Ego Illusions

Happiness, Consciousness, Don't Know Mind, Buddha Nature, Delusion, Bell,...
Apr 05 1971

Medieval Instability: Seeds of Renewal

War, Peace, Religion
Apr 19 1971
Mount Saviour Monastery

Sewing Sesshin

Serial: SR-00122

Sunday, June 20, 1971
Sesshin Lecture No. ____
San Francisco

Sesshin, Okesa, Dogen, Attachment, New Year, Freedom, Bodhidharma, Lay, Concentration...
Jun 20 1971
City Center

Interconnected Enlightenment: A Universal Awakening

Precepts, Perfect Wisdom, Religion, Demons, Offering, Interview, American
Jun 20 1971

Transiency and Tranquility Through Mindfulness

Constancy, Ego, Evil, Posture, Nirvana, Religion, Hate, Building
Jul 02 1971

Bridging Wisdom: Buddhism Meets Christianity

Monastic Practice, Lotus Sutra, Instruction, Culture, Ceremony, American, Mahayana,...
Jul 06 1971

Why Then Is It Necessary To Accept Precepts

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Buddha Nature, Religion, Observe, Priest, Zazen,...
Jul 17 1971
City Center

Echoes of Zen: Finding Inner Stillness

Consciousness, Passions, Religion, Bell, Ego, Discrimination, confusion, Attachment,...
Jul 24 1971

Blue Cliff Records 61 - Fuketsu's One Particle Of Dust

Blue Cliff Record, Breath, Constancy, Freedom, Faith, Diversity, Greed, Religion,...
Jul 26 1971
Tassajara

Wherever You Are, We Have Zen Way Of Practice

Dogen, Shobogenzo, Genjokoan, Suffering, Pain, Don't Know Mind, Happiness,...
Aug 21 1971
City Center

Embracing Reality: Beyond Speculation

Birth-and-Death, Consciousness, difficulty, Building, Culture, Religion, American...
Oct 1971

Transcending Ego: Path to Enlightenment

Precepts, Four Noble Truths, Observe, Pain, Mindfulness, Greed, Patience, Anger,...
Oct 03 1971

Embracing Momentary Zen Impermanence

Birth-and-Death, Subject-and-Object, Liberation, Religion, Happiness, Community,...
Feb 1972

Mind's Maze: Unraveling Zen Reality

Attachment, Posture, Anger, Religion
Feb 04 1972

Living Spirituality Beyond Boundaries

Serial: MS-00379B

Talk at Watson Homestead

Religion, Happiness, Commitment
Mar 1972
Watson Homestead

Silent Paths to Spiritual Enlightenment

Serial: MS-00378

Talk at Watson Homestead

Silence, Religion, Politics
Mar 04 1972
Watson Homestead

Timeless Essence of Zen Practice

Conversation, Soto Zen, Religion, Constancy, Building, Funeral, Fox, Chanting, Bell...
Apr 1972

Flowing Through Life and Death

Buddha Nature, Samadhi, Greed, Liberation, Community, Religion, Realization,...
Apr 1972

Shaping Life's Transformative Journey

Enemies, Religion, American
Oct 1972

Sailing Life's Zen Waters

Three Treasures, Realization, Religion, Hate, Anger, confusion
Oct 08 1972

Pathways to Enlightenment: A Zen Journey

Teacher-and-Student, Subject-and-Object, Discrimination, Realization, confusion,...
Oct 23 1972

Emptiness and Enlightenment Unveiled

Discrimination, Ego, Religion, Liberation, Hate, Duality, Building, Patience,...
Oct 31 1972

Unity Beyond Dualistic Perception

Serial: MS-00417

Zen: The Root of Being (Part 1)

Religion, Subject-and-Object, Silence
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Universal Pathways in Christ's Name

Serial: MS-00418

Commitment to the Spirit, Convergence of Religions (Part 2)

Religion, Consciousness, Concentration
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Beyond Illusion: Experiencing Divine Reality

Serial: MS-00426

Unity in Contemplation (Part 2)

Evil, Religion, Silence
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Embracing Interconnected Spiritual Paths

Serial: MS-00427

Everyday Contemplation, Concluding Observations

Religion, Evil, Consciousness
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Guiding Light of Compassionate Wisdom

Serial: MS-00431

Role of the Guru in Ahimsa Training

American, Happiness, Religion
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Harmonizing Through Sacred Vibrations

Serial: MS-00434

Mantra Prayer (Part 1)

Silence, Religion, Samadhi
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Sufi Mysticism: Path to Divine Unity

Serial: MS-00437

Sufism in the Dialogue Between Religions

Consciousness, Religion, Samadhi
1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

Sex, Spirit, and the Sacred

Serial: SF-03044

Commercially produced tape: MEA Box 303 Sausalito CA 94965 P. 1973

Love, Time, Religion
1973
Unknown

SF Seminar

Serial: SF-00022

Myths and legends in religious traditions; natural and supernatural language.

Attachment, Heart Sutra, Religion, Emptiness, Buddha Nature, Transmission, Enemies,...
Feb 22 1973

The Monastic Tradition

Serial: SF-00132

Monastic experience across religious traditions.

Silence, Monastic Practice, Don't Know Mind, Emptiness, Religion, Bell, Anger...
Feb 26 1973
2

SF Seminar

Serial: SF-00023

The Three Bodies of Buddha; comparison between Eastern and Western thought; Greek tradition and Puritan tradition.

Faith, Mahayana, confusion, Religion, Passions, Doubt
Mar 09 1973
1

SF Seminar

Serial: SF-00024

The problems with celibacy

Current Events, Politics, Fasting, Demons, Obstacles, Patience, Attachment, Religion...
Mar 09 1973
2

Beyond Belief: Unveiling Hidden Truths

Serial: SF-00124

Differences between exoteric and esoteric religious traditions.

Religion, Evil, Suzuki Roshi, Subject-and-Object, Intuition, Nirvana, Separation,...
Jul 18 1973
1

Pathways to Spiritual Enlightenment

Serial: SF-00125

The third great religious awakening in America.

Emptiness, Religion, Manjushri, Interview, Conversation, Karma
Jul 18 1973
2

Spiritual Synergy Across Borders

Religion, Continuous Practice, American
Dec 05 1973
Mount Saviour Monastery

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