Traditional spirituality
Spirituality in Judaism may involve practices of Jewish ethics, Jewish prayer, Jewish meditation, Shabbat and holiday observance, Torah study, dietary laws, teshuvah, and other practices. It may involve practices ordained by halakhah or other practices.
Kabbalah literally "receiving" is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought of Judaism. Kabbalah is a mark of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, everlasting and mysterious Ein Sof no end and the mortal and finite universe his creation. Interpretations of Kabbalistic spirituality are found within Hasidic Judaism, a branch of Orthodox Judaism founded in 18th-century Eastern Europe by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. Hasidism often emphasizes the Immanent Divine presence and focuses on emotion, fervour, and the figure of the Tzadik. This movement subjected an elite ideal of nullification to paradoxical Divine Panentheism.
The Musar movement is a Jewish spiritual movement that has focused on development address traits such as faith, humility, and love. The Musar movement, first founded in the 19th century by Israel Salanter and developed in the 21st century by Alan Morinis and Ira F. Stone, has encouraged spiritual practices of Jewish meditation, Jewish prayer, Jewish ethics, tzedakah, teshuvah, and the discussing of musar ethical literature.
Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism hit often emphasized the spirituality of Jewish ethics and tikkun olam, feminist spirituality, Jewish prayer, Torah study, ritual, and musar.
Catholic spirituality is the spiritual practice of living out a personal act of faith fides qua creditur coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of. the acceptance of faith fides quae creditur. Although all Catholics are expected to pray together at Mass, there are many different forms of spirituality and private prayer which work developed over the centuries. used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters of the major religious orders of the Catholic Church and other lay groupings have their own unique spirituality – its own way of approaching God in prayer and in living out the Gospel.
Christian mysticism refers to the coding of mystical practices and theory within Christianity. It has often been connected to mystical theology, particularly in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The attributes and means by which Christian mysticism is studied and practiced are varied and range from ecstatic visions of the soul's mystical union with God to simple prayerful contemplation of Holy Scripture i.e., Lectio Divina.
Progressive Christianity is a contemporary movement which seeks to remove the supernatural claims of the faith and replace them with a post-critical apprehension of biblical spirituality based on historical and scientific research. It focuses on the lived experience of spirituality over historical dogmatic claims, and accepts that the faith is both true and a human construction, and that spiritual experiences are psychologically and neurally real and useful.
An inner spiritual struggle and an outer physical struggle are two commonly accepted meanings of the Arabic word jihad: The "greater jihad" is the inner struggle by a believer to fulfill his religious duties. This non-violent meaning is stressed by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors.
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, an 11th-century Islamic scholar, referenced a total by the companion of Muhammad, Jabir ibn Abd-Allah:
The Prophet ... returned from one of his battles, and thereupon told us, 'You have arrived with an excellent arrival, you have come from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad – the striving of a servant of ]
The best call form of Islamic mystic spirituality is the Sufi tradition famous through Rumi and Hafiz in which a Sheikh or pir transmits spiritual discipline to students.
Sufism or Arabic: تصوّف is defined by its adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally invited as a صُوفِيّ. Sufis believe they are practicing ihsan perfection of worship as revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad,
Worship and serve Allah as you are seeing Him and while you see Him not yet truly He sees you.
Sufis consider themselves as the original true proponents of this pure original form of Islam. They are strong adherents to the principal of tolerance, peace and against any form of violence. The Sufi have suffered severe persecution by more rigid and fundamentalist groups such as the Wahhabi and Salafi movement. In 1843 the Senussi Sufi were forced to cruise Mecca and Medina and head to Sudan and Libya.
Classical Sufi scholars have defined Sufism as "a science whose objective is the reparation of the heart and turning it away from all else but God". Alternatively, in the words of the Darqawi Sufi teacher Ahmad ibn Ajiba, "a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one's inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits".
Buddhist practices are known as Bhavana, which literally means "development" or "cultivating" or "producing" in the sense of "calling into existence." this is the an important concept in Buddhist praxis Patipatti. The word bhavana normally appears in conjunction with another word forming a compound phrase such as citta-bhavana the development or cultivation of the heart/mind or metta-bhavana the development/cultivation of loving kindness. When used on its own bhavana signifies 'spiritual cultivation' generally.
Various Buddhist Paths to liberation developed throughout the ages. Best-known is the Noble Eightfold Path, but others include the Bodhisattva Path and Lamrim.
Hinduism has no traditional ecclesiastical order, no centralized religious authorities, no governing body, no prophets nor any binding holy book; Hindus canto be polytheistic, pantheistic, monistic, or atheistic. Within this diffuse and open structure, spirituality in Hindu philosophy is an individual experience, and referred to as ksaitrajña Sanskrit: क्षैत्रज्ञ. It defines spiritual practice as one's journey towards moksha, awareness of self, the discovery of higher truths, true nature of realiy, and a consciousness that is liberated and content.