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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…
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we…
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Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…
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This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the…
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
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The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in…
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
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The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
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Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of…
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Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition…
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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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And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not…
— Pat Condell
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A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but…
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The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30…
— Carl Sagan
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True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.
— Isaac Asimov
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The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan
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Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about…
— Steven Johnson
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At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater,…
— Diane Paulus
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No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably…
— Mark Lilla
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In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle -…
— David Chipperfield
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
— Sam Neill
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I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
— Elmer Bernstein
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