Going to Church and not necessarily paying attention to anything. Or any other kind of 'Temple Service' for that matter. Sneaking a peak at the men in the Mos

Going to Church and not necessarily paying attention to anything. Or any other kind of 'Temple Service' for that matter. Sneaking a peak at the men in the Mosque from the doorway, without knowing much about Islam, I was moved. I've often visited Catholic Churches in Europe (I'm not Catholic), to take a set and contemplate a bit. Much like the current comments about the Swiss photographer who sees Japan in a different light than they might, it sort of made me reflect on my on rather limited Church-going experience and mini-experiences of witnessing bits of ceremony of other religions. I find intellectual people may be over analyzing a lot of issues, our egos lead us down one rabbit hole after the next and I feel we are missing the point. 'Going through the motions' can be a potent thing to help transcend that, because it doesn't involve focusing on the language or intellectual rhetoric directly. In Buddhism they certainly have a lot of focus on 'transcending thought' which I think could equally apply to Abrahamic faith, but we get caught up a lot in the language and the 'applied rules' and it trips us up. Just go into the Cathedral when there's no service and sit for a while.