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THE QUESTION
Eastern Spiritual Practices
Can a Christian, Muslim or Jew embrace eastern spiritual practices -- yoga or Buddhist meditation, for example -- and remain true to the laws of the God of Abraham?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on April 11, 2007 6:56 AM
FROM THE PANEL
Know What to Try and Why
If you are embracing or practicing “New Age” eastern spirituality in search of finding an alternative to your current religion, then you have already left your religion.
Posted by T.D. Jakes, on April 16, 2007 10:30 AM
On Admiring the Religious Other
Many of our most significant Abrahamic religious leaders – Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, Badshah Khan, Martin Luther King Jr. – had a deep admiration for Eastern spiritual traditions.
Posted by Eboo Patel, on April 16, 2007 9:41 AM
Many Paths Lead to the Divine
We are not confined to the religion that is prevalent in our town or country, but can benefit from the teachings of many different faiths.
Posted by Pamela K. Taylor, on April 16, 2007 8:13 AM
Integrating with Discernment
The spiritual practices that are native to our religions are not free-floating. They are tied to fundamental world views.
Posted by Richard Mouw, on April 13, 2007 9:05 AM
Explore Other Faiths; Be Careful to Return
The boundary is where individuals enters so far into some kind of other faith and religious observance that they lose sight of their own faith.
Posted by Julia Neuberger, on April 13, 2007 8:14 AM
God Big Enough to Embrace All
There is no single pathway into the Holy.
Posted by John Shelby Spong, on April 13, 2007 7:06 AM
We Can Learn From Masters of All Faiths
Anything that can assist me in praying better, that helps me to be still and centered, I am happy to employ.
Posted by Desmond Tutu, on April 12, 2007 9:55 AM
Eastern Spirituality: Work of the Devil or Shortcut to Fulfillment?
Until you experience and know your own tradition, you can not be enriched by another’s.
Posted by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., on April 12, 2007 8:13 AM
Focus Must Be on God, Not Self
The issue is not techniques used for spiritual attainment; the issue is the object of those practices.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on April 12, 2007 7:28 AM
Feel the Presence of Your Being
It may be that through practices such as yoga Christians today can retrieve more of the unity of body and spirit that was characteristic of Christianity in its first three centuries.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on April 11, 2007 10:08 AM
Know Your Mind, Body and Spirit
A lot of modern medicine was conceived in a relentlessly secularist mindset, but I don't think I'm selling out to secularism by taking an Aspirin or having an injection.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on April 11, 2007 9:30 AM
Bible More Than Sufficient
Why settle for less when we already have been given the best?
Posted by Cal Thomas, on April 11, 2007 8:25 AM
Rosary Beads and Syncretism
I’ll say a rosary on my beads (another borrowing from the East) for anyone who doubts the ability to be orthodox while incorporating what is valuable in other religions.
Posted by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, on April 11, 2007 7:56 AM
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