If We Take The World’s Enduring Religions

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

I Am Profoundly Moved And Persuaded By The Near-death Experience.

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

In Nature, The Emphasis Is In What Is Rather Than What Ought To Be.

Built Into Human Makeup Is A Longing For A 'more' That The World Of Everyday Experience Cannot Requite.