“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.” MindReligiousBuddhismBasesPhilosophicalBuddhistCosmologyAssimilationRevisionInterpretingMind Changing Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongPhilosophySpiritualityLanguageInterestingModernBuddhismPhilosophicalIslamSecularReally Interesting Author:Win Butler
“As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the meaning of God lay in this direction. At the same time, these undeniable experiences lit up and were in turn illuminated by all the philosophical and historical knowledge I had by then amassed and I began to understand in an entirely new way the teachings of both Judaism and Christianity as well as the teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.” RealityQualityChristianityDoubtTeachingBuddhismPhilosophicalHistoricalIslamExplorationHinduismJudaismLit Author:Jacob Needleman
“The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.” GivingMindReasonSoundTeachingBuddhismElementsPhilosophicalCoreCeaseContemporaryInterpretationAcceptableSecularSupernatural Elements Author:Julian Baggini
“Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.” LongProblemAbleFacesChristianityCenturyProductsBuddhismHundredPhilosophicalRealisticHeritageSpeculationAntichrist Book:The Antichrist Source: The Antichrist
“On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.” InspirationalShouldMaySoulMatterRealityLevelsPrinciplesShareModernBuddhismAuthorityEternalEvidenceAbsolutesPhilosophicalFundamentalsNotionScriptureBuddhistTriumphInvestigationSuspicionTranscendentModern ScienceUnchangingEmpirical Evidence Book:In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy