"As for the law of moral causation ('karma'):……" — Stephen Batchelor
"As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world."
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40 Quotes by Stephen Batchelor
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...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in…
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to…
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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…
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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…
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive…
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The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself…
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and…
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The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of…
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Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed…
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Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really…
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation,…
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More Causation Quotes
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
— Zeno of Citium
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic…
— Nathan Rosenberg
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If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the…
— Thomas Huxley
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God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed…
— S. T. Joshi
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as…
— Bertrand Russell
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
— Amartya Sen
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
— Jared Diamond
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
— Wumen Huikai
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Bullies are always cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
— Swami Vivekananda
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This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea…
— Swami Vivekananda
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