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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
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