Cosmology Quotes - Page 7

• The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Stress, Buddhism

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• As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis that way, then there's no freedom. We're just trying clothes on in front of a mirror and admiring them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mirrors, Self

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• Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Reality

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• I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.

  Leonard Susskind

  Atheism, Agents, Venture

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• I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

  Fred Van Lente

  Excuse, Interest, Shows

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to language that itself vibrates to the harmonies of the infinite are entitled to inclusion among the "small group of people.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, People, Groups

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• Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.

  Sara Maitland

  People, Heaven, Greek

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• For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the world who can say that. This has no kudos in either the science-writing world or the academic world, but it's one of the most challenging things I've ever done. It's much harder to write about cosmology for a magazine like Vogue than for the New York Times, which I've also written for, because you have to imagine that on the page opposite there'll be an advertisement for eyeliner, or an article about the latest trends in skirt length.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Writing, Challenges, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Our World, Self

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• The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Messages, Affirmation

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• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

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• Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Difficult Situations, Overcoming

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• The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Essence, Practice

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• The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfect

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• Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Enlightenment, Firsts

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• Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Years, Towns

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• A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Moving, Wish

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• Real Buddhism is about meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Real, Buddhism

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• Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Buddhism

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• Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Forever

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• Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism

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• What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences, because it does really pertain to how we know. It really helps bring epistemology, which is how do we know what we know, out of the realm of philosophy and brings it into the realm of science.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Philosophy, Doe, Helping

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, he'd also address that it was just a psychological state.

  Brad Warner

  Teacher, Buddhist, Heaven

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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