To create a subsistent spirituality, have a few rules to ground yourself (bind yourself).
No rules but a few grounding ones:
- support pluralism
- avoid emphasis on separation
Religion = religare = to bind
It is a spectrum
- Bind too much (no freedom)
- Minimalist binding (a few rules to ground oneself and to guide group)
- No binding (illusory absolute freedom, no regard to others, takes all welcomes all)
The rules that bind jiyu shukyo may be best internalized rather than treated like laws.