>>4095813>but what can we as the uninitiated do but gawp and meditate on the tao/force/logos/God/creation?that's usually when the clergy comes along and declares that only they are enlightened enough to hand out salvation and thereby elevate themselves to the upper class, of course.
eastern religious clergy really missed out by not getting organized like catholicism and sunni islam did, the pope was pretty much emperor of europe until protestantism came along
