Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

I agree, Mushroom Man, and suspect that religions when practised truly - be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, even meditation in its purest form and unaligned to any religion, are paths leading to the same experience. All paths to God, or Tao, or Oneness, or whatever name you wanna call it. They're all spoons by which we can taste the soup. The thing to remember is that the spoon is not the soup. A spoon is a spoon. The soup is what matters.