Can a Roman Catholic Christian practice other religions such as Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism?
Don’t get caught up in saying you’re practicing another religion. Just use a TECHNIQUE from a school if it is pure and clean and helps you make spiritual progress. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism all have such techniques. In fact, those techniques have been and are being borrwed by Chrsitains all the time. Centering prayer and prayer recitation are basically techniques found int he East with different names. Jesuit visualizations fall into the same category. So don’t say you’re practicing another religion, just practicing a spiritual cultivation method. Learn the principle and adopt them for your own religion, whatever it is. And don’t get so tied up with that “purity” aspect. If you’re practicing to become one with God, which methods are not legitimate? When you actually read the cultivation methods used by Catholic saints, you’ll be surprised to find they’re often the same as in the East, and the stages of achievement they achieved are the same as well.
