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“Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.”

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Dogen was a Japanese Zen master born in January 1200 and died on September 22, 1253. He was the founder of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism in Japan and had a profound influence on the development of Zen Buddhism. Dogen advocated 'Zen is life,' emphasizing the close connection between Zen practice and everyday life, and his thoughts had a wide impact on Japanese culture. more

“I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Earth Huge Praying Thousand First Time Standing Miles Look Up Thousand Miles Donuts Kneeling Groveling

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator, just like a watch. But there is a tendency to point to them and say 'It is impossible to believe' that such complexity, or such perfection, could have evolved by natural selection. Whenever I read such a remark, I always feel like writing 'Speak for yourself' in the margin.”

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!”

Doe Law Laws Of Nature

Author:Enrico Fermi

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