Spirituality is knowing, religion is believing. Religion is doing all these external things, like going to church or becoming a monk. Spirituality is allowing yourself to be, to exist. Religion is not eating meat on a Friday, while spirituality is watching nature exist in its glorious beauty. Zen is what it is, religion is the structure, the limitations, the guided beliefs that other people thought of, that are imposed on your belief system. In other words, religion is a confined branch of spirituality.
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