One sometimes hears the question are you a practicing Jew, Christian, Buddhist, Moslem, or practicing any other cultural group ideology?
In general, practice is undertaken to increase one's own abilities or advancement. Practice seems to be aimed toward reducing threat and uncertainty, contribute to one's self-esteem or personal structure, protecting against loss of position, defending personal brainwashing against uncertainty, etc.
Practices are methodologies, strategies to attain individual goals undertaken largely in one's own self-interest.
I do not recommend any of them in any religion or culture. I only recommend responding to the needs of others appropriately. This is not a methodology. It needs no teacher or teaching, no theology or sect or denomination for its implementation. As a matter of fact, they get in the way. It is rarely mentioned directly among those who "practice" this or that.
I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, sick and you visited me.
No practice required there just awareness of obvious needs and their appropriate responses. All else is self-delusion in the interests of the deluded sense of an individual separate self.
I have inquired into many religions and spiritualities and I find them merely "brands" to hawk and people to lasso into tribes and sects, denominations and abominations, teams and schemes, mostly all full of the corruption of forgetting that being human is responding to the real needs of others appropriately.
It's actually the essence of loving your neighbor. And so you have my final conclusion about human existence. I have little more to say than that to the two who occasionally visit this site.
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