Bookstore

Yesterday I had a bit of time to kill and so I went into a Barnes & Noble bookstore. I haven't been in a bookstore in ages - not to look at books at least. I've bought birthday cards and journals from a bookstore recently, but any books I've purchased in the past year or two have been ordered online.


I do very much enjoy spending time in bookstores. It is comforting being surrounded by so much knowledge and entertainment all mixed up together. I spent a good long time at the Eastern Religion section, looking for a new book on Taoism. I thought maybe it's time to take my study of the Way past The Tao of Pooh - which, interestingly enough, you can't find in the Eastern Religion section; it's classified only as Humor.

All religions are tied up in each other. So many people work so hard to divide and separate religion from religion. What a fruitless labor. Interdependence reaches to religion as well; why must people fight so hard just to try to remain separate? Just to try to remain distinct from the person in the temple across the street?

Instead of fighting why not just pray/sit? Or put your feet in the grass? Or a hug a child? It would do much more good for the world.