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What Is Zen? Simple, Simple, So Simple. Infinite Gratitude Toward All Things Past; Infinite Service To All Things Present; Infinite Responsibility To All Things Future.

So Always, If We Look Back, Concern For Face-to-face Morality, And Its Modern Emphasis On Justice As Well, Have Historically Evolved As Religious Issues.

Plato Described Ordinary Life As Unthinking, Lived In A Dim Cave Of Shadowy Reflections, But Said That It Is Possible To Leave The Cave And See Things In Sunlit Clarity As They Actually Are.

It Has Been Estimated That One Third Of Our Western Civilization Bears The Mark Of Its Jewish Ancestry.

I Have A Body And I Have A Soul. And My Body Belongs To The Faith - In Fact, The Church - Into Which It Was Born, The Methodist Church.