Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.Alan Watts
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
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