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“Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.”

Humans Persons Problem Universe Common Achieve Subjects Buddhism Birth All Things Universal Buddhist Cycles Emancipation Birth And Death Transience

Book:Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

Source: Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought

“A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.”

Way Humans Science Life Is Seeing Buddhism Connected Categorization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.”

Humans Science Human Beings Buddhism Convenient Filing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.”

People Mind Humans Different Science Order Theory Buddhism Type Series Chaos Familiar Human Mind Chaotic Chaos Theory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.”

Want Humans Use Human Beings Buddhism Abuse Average Careful Passing Passings Be Careful Abuse Of Power Another Life Passing Through Use And Abuse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster around each other in housing developments - a group force pervades and keeps the beings out.”

People World Humans Night Force Human Beings Attention Groups Buddhism Development Housing Clusters

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.”

Way Humans Long Moving Spirit Human Beings Watches Buddhism Civilization Long Time Patient Very Good Islands Hawaii Protective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.”

World Years Humans Beautiful Left Born Human Beings Race Millions This World Buddhism Civilization Years Ago Forgotten Ancient Islands Site Maui Ancient Civilizations

Author:Frederick Lenz