Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #5: Bongwonsa Temple and Nature Walk

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #5: Bongwonsa Temple and Nature Walk: "After visiting the Zen Buddhist Temple, Bongwonsa and attempting to see nature as a Taoist, answer this question: What is it about creation,..."

Something my drama teacher in South Africa once told me about religion really stuck with me, that even with primitive man they thought there was a higher being, a God, that created this world and should be worshiped or given thanks to for making this world. That actually rings true and is why most people believe in some sort of religion or another, that there has to be a reason this world was created, that we have a purpose. Going out into nature and just looking at what is round you, at the beauty and splendor of it all, you really have to think someone had to have thought this up, created it. In a modern day environment, we put it down to science and theories on how the world was created. But how was it made in such a perfect way? Why is Earth so conveniently placed from the sun that we don't burn or freeze, that all living organisms are connected together in some way and rely and depend on the other for survival. That is the Taoist way of thinking, or a interpretation. The way of life, the natural course it is supposed to take. Everything has meaning and a purpose, messing around with that purpose can have disastrous effects on the world. Damming up rivers causes animals and plants down stream not to get any water, and would die or move away which is not the natural order of things. So people, no matter where they are in the world, who they are or what they may end up believing in, do think someone or something had a hand in making this world just the way it is, perfect for all humans, animals, plants, organisms to co-exist with the natural order of things.