The Religious Experience

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.

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.