“...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.” EndsOrderDangerousHarmCustomsDogmaAttemptingMilitantOld Dog Author:Gore Vidal
“If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.” IfsSaidStatesSpiritualPoliticalDangerousOrganizationOfficialsProphetDogmaShamanismSpiritual Experience Author:Michael Harner
“Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.” PeoplePersonsWholeInterestStruggleDangerousDependsInstitutionsFoolishBuddhistDogmaTibet Author:Dalai Lama