# What Is True Religion? Belief, Authority, and Meditation

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120145954519294334
- Source account: [@yansan](https://x.com/yansan)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation) So that, I mean, what is religion? Actually, what is religion?

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=7) First of all, to find out what is religion, we, we must negate what it is not.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=14) I don't know if you- Mm-hmm. What i- what is not, then it is.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=20) It's like what, what is not love? Mm-hmm.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=25) The-- Which love is not hate, love is not jealousy, love is not ambition, love is not the vi-violence.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=32) So when you negate all that, the other is, which is compassion.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=37) In the same way, if you negate what is not religion, then you find out what is true religion.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=48) That is, what is the truly religious mind?

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=55) First of all, therefore, belief is not religion.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=61) And the authority, which the churches, the organized religions assume, is not religion.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=72) That in that, there is all the sense of obedience, conformity, acceptance, the hierarchical approach to life, the division between the Protestant, the Catholic, the Hindu, the Muslim, and all, that's not religion.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=95) So when you negate all that, which means you are no longer a Hindu, no longer a Catholic, no longer belonging to any sectarian outlook, then your mind then question, ask, what is then truly religion?

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=119) This is not with their rituals, with their masters, with their savior.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=123) That's not religion. Therefore, when the mind discards that intelligently, because it has seen it's not, then what is religion?

[2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=134) Religion is the-- is not what I think, but religion is, is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence, in which there is no division between you and me.

[2:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/NTnLONiZ1zWW/en/what-is-true-religion-belief-authority-and-meditation?t=152) Then if there is that quality of goodness, which is virtue, real virtue, not this phony virtue of society, real virtue, then the mind can go beyond and find out through meditation, through a deep, quiet silence, can find out if there is such thing as reality.