"...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon……" — Stephen Batchelor
"...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation."
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40 Quotes by Stephen Batchelor
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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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I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…
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