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What's your religion?

Mr. Stevens said:
If you have lungs and can kayak, that is all the God you need. Which isn't to say you have to have faith or believe.
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I understand. Sometimes on a river and feeling one with the river and nature I do have transcendent feelings. I'll take that as a gift . . . no deity required.
 
Gerald Wilgus said:
I understand. Sometimes on a river and feeling one with the river and nature I do have transcendent feelings. I'll take that as a gift . . . no deity required.
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Even as theist, I can relate this feeling. Never has been in the exact context, but being out hiking in the woods and taking a moment to take everything in can trigger that connection for me.
 
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Kitsuna said:
Even as theist, I can relate this feeling. Never has been in the exact context, but being out hiking in the woods and taking a moment to take everything in can trigger that connection for me.
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To me that is understandable. The most profound moments like that has when I needed to concentrate because my safety is at risk. Like, paddling Big Mallard on the Main Salmon, a classic Class IV, in my canoe. I strap myself in the boat and shove off and as I pass the first holes my adrenaline kicks in and it is as if time slows down and I am in pure reflex, doing moves I've practiced many times before. Nearly unthinking and an observer in my own body. Then I'm through and time starts again..
 
Gerald Wilgus said:
To me that is understandable. The most profound moments like that has when I needed to concentrate because my safety is at risk. Like, paddling Big Mallard on the Main Salmon, a classic Class IV, in my canoe. I strap myself in the boat and shove off and as I pass the first holes my adrenaline kicks in and it is as if time slows down and I am in pure reflex, doing moves I've practiced many times before. Nearly unthinking and an observer in my own body. Then I'm through and time starts again..
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I approve.

I have Karate as background in this relation.

Sensei asked us in the "first lesson" why do we seek Karate? Some answered fitness, som answered self-defence, some answered other things - I answered Spiritual reasons (why I seek Karate). Another time another Sensei trained our reflexes to attack (being impation and judgmental) so I got my alibi. I quit seeking Karate.

As I'm primarily also Muslim and believe i should not hit people, especially in Islam boxing is forbidden as they "hit people in the head". So Kyokusinkan is maybe allowed, because they allow hits everywhere but not the head. Right? I've not been fortunate to feel Kyokushinkai on my body. I'm a bit anxion about it now also 😁😅

But whereas a Dojo is (strictly speaking) not God's house, i see the benefit to excersice.
 
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