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“Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.”

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Quentin S. Crisp

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

“Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.”

People Ifs Way I Can Make Sense Consistent Pantheism Redundant Designation

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“Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.”

Seems Interest Models

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“There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.”

Way Has Beens I Can Ideas Bigs Might Form Universe Suicide Substance Associates Might Have Been Bangs Qualifications

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“What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.”

Important Seems Difficult Imagination Focus Buddhism Significant Denial Fascination

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“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.”

Thinking Has Beens Soul Philosophy Body House Strong Imagination Forever Buddhism Elements Destroyed Enlightened Linked Strain Reborn

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

World Seems Buddhism Peculiar Despise Here And Now

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“You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".”

World Giving Reason Use Order Religious Existence Forever Focus Opposites Impulse Elsewhere Here And Now

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“The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.”

Made Imagination Seeds Manifest Fertile

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“There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.”

Strong Buddhism Aspect Fertility

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“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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