What is Religion? What is the Absolute Truth?

Is religion based on psychological or philosophical fundamentals?
Religion is the man-made institution.
Religion is in the society or in oneself.

I’ve been searching for myself and the Absolute Truth. There come the religious beliefs. There come the metaphysical ideas.

When my grandmother became ill, climbing stairs to go to the second floor of our flat had turned into a difficult mission. That time, I was 16. She asked me to help her fulfill one of her daily tasks— to offer food, flower and water to Buddha every morning at 6 o’clock at second floor. My grandmother was a religious person. She had a strong faith in Buddhism, cultural traditions such as Nats, or spirits and indigenous belief that God was everywhere in every realm of the Universe.


Being brought up by her, whenever I had doubt about such things as religious beliefs, I would search out her judgment on the issues, and she’d always had justifications and explanations. It didn't matter whether I got satisfied with her answers or not, she would always be contented with her belief in any case.


My grandmother passed away peacefully on one moonless night. I don’t know where to look for her when I have questions to ask now. And I don’t have to fulfill her task anymore.
But I am still looking for her.
And I still continue with the offering.

Religion is a composite of societal, cultural, traditional, and personal conviction.
Does it yield the Absolute Truth or is it far from it?
Does it make a person more confident, secured and calm?
Does it create wars between different belief systems?
Are we all created by one force, the God?
How do we break free from the cycle?

I think.
It’s all within me.
It’s all within me.
It’s all within me.

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