29 Quotes by Steve Hagen about Zen




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    [A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

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    Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

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    Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

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    We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.

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