Comparative Religion: Discovering Through Mindfulness Its Significance in Your Vision of a Life Worth Living

This course describes and compares the fundamental beliefs and practices of many religions from the East and West, from the North and the South, and from both pre-historic and historic times, although emphasis will be on religions today. We compare the religions with respect to their views on the origin of our universe, what it means to live a life worth living, ethics, and the natural environment.  While comparing the religions, each of us will be discovering with others through mindfulness the significance of religious diversity in their own vision of a life worth living.  We build a supportive community through discussions where each helps the other to think deeply about their search for truth in a pluralist environment and to answer life’s most important existential issues.  We will learn a method—Mindfulness-Based Self-Knowledge (MBSK)—that helps individuals gain self-knowledge of what one deeply thinks about the value of religious diversity and its significance in one’s vision of a life worth living.