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The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to…

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...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world…
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…
This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of…
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition…
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private…

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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp,… — Deepak Chopra
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the… — Tom Robbins
I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. — Robert Mapplethorpe
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Bertrand Russell
In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and… — Jay E. Adams
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as… — Thomas Jefferson
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises
I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be… — Jackie Robinson

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