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“The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.”

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According to limited available information, Quentin S. Crisp, born in 1972, is a person whose identity and profession have not been publicly documented in detail. more

“Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.”

Shows Hands Lines Existence Painting Ready Void Ink Fertile Fertility Austerity

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“I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after telling us to beware of aliens because they'll probably just do to us as the conquistadors did to the native peoples of the Americas. So . . . exactly why do we want to go on and on, to go forth and multiply in a hostile final frontier? Why?”

Thinking Want Long Space Cases Goes On Finals Aliens Native Hostile Frontiers Conquistadors

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“If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.”

Ifs Want Enough Space Materialism Vacuous

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“If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.”

Ifs Way Philosophy Seems Found Space Existence Overcoming Just One Quests Hints Linear

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“If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.”

Ifs Mean Seems Imagination Buddhism Aspect Overcoming Dwelling Linear Fertility Linear Time

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“If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.”

Ifs Humans Looks Strong Force Tree Activity Ten Rivers Roots Eight Circles Symbols Realms Unconscious Cycles Void Blank Human Society Wanderers

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“Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.”

Kind Seems Past Views Buddhist Void Testament Old Testament

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