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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 to modernity.

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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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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. — Theodor Adorno
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. — Eric Hoffer
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a… — Paul de Man
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such… — Alexander Herzen
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn… — Jean Baudrillard
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition… — Stephen Batchelor

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