The Great Questions
The questions the traditions have asked in their own ways. Each page gathers perspectives from several of them, without settling the matter.
- Are knowing and acting one?
- Can knowledge transform the knower?
- Can mystical experience be induced?
- Can ultimate reality be known?
- Do opposites meet in the ultimate?
- Is awakening sudden or gradual?
- Is liberation earned or given?
- Is love or knowledge the higher way?
- Is religious truth universal?
- Is the body an obstacle or a way?
- Is the ultimate empty or full?
- Is the whole in every part?
- Is the world an illusion?
- Is union with God identity or communion?
- Must the contemplative leave the world?
- Should the self be strengthened or extinguished?
- Should we act, or let things be?
- What do we owe to all living beings?
- What does unity mean?
- What is consciousness?
- What is mystical experience?
- What is the Self?
- What is the relationship between consciousness and matter?
- What is ultimately real?
- Why are there many religions?
- Why would the infinite create a finite world?