The Religious Experience
Across
- 1. Sitting meditation, in Zen schools.
- 3. Small sword worn by Khalsa initiates.
- 4. A Sikh congregation.
- 6. Taking a flexible, nondogmatic approach.
- 7. A Sihk temple.
- 13. Actions; the law of cause and effect.
- 14. Nectar made with sugar and water, symbolizing the sweetness of compassion.
- 15. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
Down
- 1. A Chinese and Japanese school emphasizing that all things have Buddha-nature, which can only be grasped when one escapes from the intellectual mind.
- 2. Liberation from mental afflictions, suffering, and rebirth.
- 5. The constitutional principle of not giving favored status to any religion.
- 8. Visual contact with the divine.
- 9. Full awareness of invisible reality.
- 10. Belief that there is no deity.
- 11. An incarnation of a deity.
- 12. Spiritual teacher.