The Goal Of Spiritual Life

The First Koan Do Not Have Rational Answers. They Are Techniques Devised Over The Millennia For Triggering An Actual Experience.

The Proper Response To A Great Work Of Art Is To Enter It As Though There Were Nothing Else In The World.

Modernity Sees Humanity As Having Ascended From What Is Inferior To It - Life Begins In Slime And Ends In Intelligence - Whereas Traditional Cultures See It As Descended From Its Superiors. As The Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins Put The Matter: We Are The Only People Who Assume That We Have Ascended From Apes. Everybody Else Take It For Granted That They Are Descended From Gods.

We Are A Blend Of Dust And Divinity.

God Has To Speak To Each Person In Their Own Language, In Their Own Idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You Can Express The Same Thought, But To Different People You Have To Use A Different Language. Its The Same In Religion.