Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts.They never go beyond a narrow,mind-made,personalized sense of self that is condition by the past.How easy it is for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons.The human mind,in its desire to know,understand,and control,mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth.It says:this is how it is.You have to be larger than thought to realize that however you interpret "your life" or someone else's life or behaviour,however you judge any situation,it is no more than a viewpoint,one of many possible perspectives.It is no more than a bundle of thoughts.But reality is one unified whole,in which all things are interwoven,where nothing exists in and by itself.Thinking fragments reality,it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.Dogmas(religious,political,scientific)arise out of the erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or the truth.Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons.And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and false sense of "I know".Nohing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later,because reality will eventually disclose its falseness especially RELIGION;however,unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is,it will be replaced by others.What is this basic delusion? It is the identificatin with thought.Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp.When you no longer believe everyrthing you think,you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thikning mind,It means you don't see the other human being anymore ,but only your own concept of that human being.To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a conceptcis already a form of violence.By knowing yourself as the awareness in which phenomenal existence happens,you become free of dependency(on religion) and free of self seeking in situations,places,and conditions.In other words,what happens or doesn't happen is not that important anymore.Things lose their heaviness,their seriousness.A playfulness comes into your life.You recognize this world as a cosmic dance,the dance of form.No more and no less my religious friends, peace.