Practice Giving Things Away, Not Just Things

Historically, Religion Has Given People Another World To Live In, A World More Adaptive To The Human Spirit. As A Student Of World Religions, I See Religion As The Winnower Of The Wisdom Of The Human Race. Of Course, Not Everything About These Religions Is Wise. Their Social Patterns, For Example - Master-slave, Caste, And Gender Relations - Have Been Adopted From The Mores Of Their Time. But In Their View Of The Nature Of Reality, There Is Nothing In Either Modernity Or Postmodernity That Rivals Them.

Beware Of The Differences That Blind Us To The Unity That Binds Us.

Every Society And Religion Has Rules, For Both Have Moral Laws. And The Essence Of Morality Consists, As In Art, Of Drawing The Line Somewhere.

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.

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.