"Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science."
- Robert A.F. Thurman
"In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound."
"Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity."
"No sane person fears nothingness."
"There is no reason for a sound faith to be irrational. A useful faith should not be blind, but should be well aware of its grounds. A sound faith should be able to use scientific investigation to stre..."
"To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formul..."