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“All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.”

Body Women Break Disease Enlightenment Aging Subtle Breaking Down Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.”

Body Energy Causes Women Loses Break Enlightenment Subtle Breaking Down Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism”

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Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.”

Wells Persons Understanding Water Loses Interesting Break Personality Enlightenment Reflection Areas Buddhist Acquire Commentary Referencing

Author:Brad Warner

“Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.”

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Author:Sheila Jasanoff

“A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.”

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Author:Lisi Harrison

“Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.”

Humans Desire Force Break Masters Anxiety Enlightenment Lays Accepted Driving Dilemma Break Out Ignite Driving Force Zen Master

Book:Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau

Source: Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau