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Religious tradition founded
Date
En-hedu-ana
priestess of Inanna, earliest
author of religious scripture known by name.
23rd century BCE
Akhenaten
Atenism
14th
century BCE
Zoroaster
Zoroastrianism
Early Iron Age
Solomon
Israelite king who
built the first Temple in Jerusalem
and codified Judaism.
10th
century BCE (Solomon's historicity is uncertain, see also Tel Dan
Stele)
Numa Pompilius
Roman
king who codified and organized the Roman
religion
717 BCE - 673 BCE
Mahavira
The final Tirthankara in Jainism
599 –
527 BCE
Laozi
Taoism
600s BCE
Siddhārtha
Gautama
Buddhism
563 BCE - 483
BCE
Confucius
Confucianism
551 BCE -
479 BCE
Pythagoras
Pythagoreanism
520
BCE
Mozi
Mohism
470 BCE -
390 BCE
Leucippus
Atomism
440 BCE
Plato
Platonic realism
427
BCE - 347 BCE
Epicurus
Epicureanism
307
BCE
Zeno of Citium
Stoicism
333
BCE - 264 BCE
Patanjali
Raja
Yoga
2nd century BCE
Jesus of Nazareth
Early
Christianity
6 BCE - 27 CE (the historicity of
Jesus is disputed by some authors)
Paul
of Tarsus and Simon Peter
Apostles of
Jesus, Paul codified Jesus' teachings to shape Pauline
Christianity while Peter and his successors used their
influence to shape the Christian Church according to a Pauline
interpretation of the gospel
1st century
Once a part and parcel of religion, the origin of the tradition is, often with a touch of miracle and marvel, attributed to a popular religious celebrity. It is here that all practices concerning various phases of life, from birth through initiation into the society, marriage, parentage, and death, take a religious form. Even eating, clothing, waking, walking, working, washing, running, resting, sleeping, and socializing have their religious ways of performing them. Tradition, religious or not, is present in every movement one makes, private, personal or otherwise. It becomes the *prescription* for life. The terms religion and tradition are, as earlier stated, used not only as cognates but also as synonyms. A tradition must develop to further enhance revelation as it unfolds to the understanding of successive ages. Thus a tradition is inseparable from and a necessary adjunct of initial revelation. (MY COMMENTS)
Religious Traditions-They each have the common familiar thread expressed in the first quotation: they hold G-d and man in one thought, a religious man suffers harm done to the community vicariously,his strength is love and compassion, and such a man or woman defies despair.
" A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at
one time, at all times, who suffers
harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest
strength is love and defiance of despair. "
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
One day Ananda, who had been thinking deeply about things for a while,
turned to the Buddha and exclaimed:"Lord, I've been thinking- spiritual
friendship is at least half of the spiritual life!"The Buddha replied: "Say not
so, Ananda, say not so. Spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual
life!"
Samyutta Nikaya, Verse 2
In what is seen, there should be just the
seen;In what is heard, there should be just the heard;In what is sensed, there
should be just the sensed;In what is thought, there should be just the
thought.
He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor
should he incite another to kill.Do not injure any being, either strong or weak
in the world.
Sutta Nipata II,14
The greatest achievement is
selflessness.The greatest worth is self-mastery.The greatest quality is seeking
to serve others.The greatest precept is continual awareness.The greatest
medicine is the emptiness of everything.The greatest action is not conforming
with the worlds ways.The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.The greatest
generosity is non-attachment.The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.The
greatest patience is humility.The greatest effort is not concerned with
results.The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.The greatest wisdom is
seeing through appearances.
Atisha
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like
unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.On these two commandments hang
all the law and the prophets. "
- Matthew 22:35
Where I wander
- You!Where I ponder - You!Only You everywhere, You, always, You.You, You,
You.When I am gladdened - You!And when I am saddened - You!Only You, everywhere
You!You, You, You.Sky is You!Earth is You!You above! You below!In every trend,
at every end,Only You, everywhere You!
Levi Yitzchak of
BerditchovTranslated by: Harry Rabinowicz
http://http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/india
"Death's
grip can break our bodies, not our souls; If death take him, I too know how to
die. Let Fate do with me what she will or can; I am stronger than death and
greater than my fate; My love shall outlast the world, doom falls from me
Helpless against my immortality."
- From SavitriBook VI: The Book of
Fate Canto I Sri Aurobindo
Krishna
At last I find a meaning of soul's
birth Into this universe terrible
and sweet,I who have felt the hungry heart of
earth Aspiring beyond heaven to
Krishna's feet.I have seen the beauty of immortal
eyes, And heard the passion of
the Lover's flute,And known a deathless ecstasy's
surprise And sorrow in my heart
for ever mute.Nearer and nearer now the music
draws, Life shudders with a
strange felicity;All Nature is a wide enamoured
pause Hoping her lord to touch,
to clasp, to be. For this one moment lived the ages past;The world now throbs
fulfilled in me at last. SRI AUROBINDO
Evening Prayer for the Sabbath
In this moment of silent
communion with Thee,
O Lord, a still small silent voice speaks in the depth of
my spirit.
It speaks to me of the things I must do to attain holy kinship with
Thee and to grow in the likeness of Thee.
I must do my allotted task with
unflagging faithfulness even though the eye of no taskmaster is on me.
I must
be gentle in the face of ingratitude or when slander distorts my noblest
motives.
I must come to the end of each day with a feeling that I have used
its gifts gratefully and faced its trials bravely.
O Lord, help me to be ever
more like Thee,holy for Thou art holy,
Loving for Thou art love.
Speak to
me, then, Lord, as I seek Thee again and again in the stillness of meditation,
until Thy bidding shall at last become for me a hallowed discipline,a familiar
way of life.
- Jewish Prayer
Jewish
Mystic Poets
