FLEXIBILITY All of us, to one extent or another have been given religious rules to follow which say what

we can and can't do according to our religions. It really gets me hot under the collar when I hear people of any religion saying I don't do XYZ because of my religion. I may be like a mute voice here, people not doing XYZ is at the root of a great deal of our societal problems because if you don't do XYZ, you are not getting the full spectrum of life, you are not living WHOLEsomely and everyone says, we need to be WHOLEsome and WHOLEy (holy). When two people meet, one who only does ABC and the other who only does XYZ, they are not flexible. Not only that, they conflict. They have frozen things that they can and can't do. In yoga, the idea is to be fit, flexible and fluid. If you are unfit, you can only get into certain poses and religion is keeping people unfit with rigid and inflexible (unfit) behaviour patterns. Rather than being like ice and frozen into dictated behaviours, people start to grate against each other which in the extreme, may even be violent. I don't want to be ageist, it is nature, but older generation people tend to be much more fixed and the youth now are much more flexible. Rather than censoring what comes our way based on dictates, in other words, before someone even asks you the question, you can know the answer because of the rules you follow about the issue, why not be open to things and allow each person to be an adult free of rules about what they can and can't do. If we want to conflict less one with another, we need to have less rigid dogma about what we can and can't do and be open to all things and possibility and in the process, become more wholesome and therefore healed? What we are talking about here, really, then is the transcendence of religion. In a life time a person shouldn't have one fixed thing to control them, they should have many experiences of many different cultures and beliefs. Being addicted to one religion or another is first of all prejudiced, all life must be regarded equally by all people, and secondly, it is very difficult to overcome. Addiction is not easy, but you know you are addicted to something when you can't give it up. Religious cold turkey is a necessary phase on the road to wholeness. Transcending addiction, psychological or physical takes effort. That is all there is to say about it really. Never forget, most people's religion is just a quirk of circumstance, had they been born somewhere else or had their parents been a different religion, most probably, they would have a different religion.