religion

• Therefore, in the modern age, we have a confrontation between religion and science, and many people suffer from this confrontation.

  Why We Practice Zazen August 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima

The most important text

1. Just to Be Alive Is Enough ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavana

   if we don't bring the ancient ideas and the modern knowledge together, then we have some kind of religion which is stuck in the past

   ancient ideas and modern knowledge · prajñā in a modern sense · belief different from religion · religions lagging behind

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2. Why We Practice Zazen ●●● August 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima

   Therefore, in the modern age, we have a confrontation between religion and science, and many people suffer from this confrontation.

   conflict between religion and science · naturally religious children
3. Introduction to Master Dogen’s Thought ●●● May 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima

   The new religion should have the power to synthesize idealism and materialism, in other words, to synthesize religion and science

   synthesis of religion and science
4. Yunmen’s Lantern Without Mystery ●●● September 2009 — Earth Spirit

   all these eighty-four thousand ways lead to the same point or does it mean she hopes that they do

   hope versus the present moment · many ways to the same point
5. Dogen’s Teaching as a Way of Living ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenec

   I don't feel that Buddhism is a religion. And I can't believe it was a religion for a man called Gautama Buddha

   Buddhism not as a religion · projecting onto a perfect teacher
6. Buddhist State as Semi-Permeable Membrane ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenec

   But I think it is a different kind of belief to religion.

   belief different from religion
7. Reality is the Present Moment ●●●

   societies follow the religion of science. In the religion of science, we believe in the absolute rule of cause and effect.

   religion of science
8. Introduction to Buddhism and the Practice of Zazen ●●●

   We are living in an age in which religion has lost its power, in an age where scientific belief reigns supreme.

   emperor worship · religion in an age of science
9. Ceremony and Everyday Life ●●● February 2009 — Cholín

   So Buddhism in Japan has become a religion of ceremonies.

   religion of ceremonies
10. Opposites and Being Upright ●●● July 2009 — Brno

    So I think spiritual religions are one-sided, basically

    one-sided spiritual religions
11. Karma, Cause and Effect ●●● July 2009 — Brno

    Now we have science, which explains things with a very powerful method. It's stronger than religious explanation

    science and religious explanation
12. Recognising the Marrow in Ourselves ●●● May 2012 — Nová Dedinka

    they think the person is perfect. So they make the person into a kind of demigod.

    projecting onto a perfect teacher
13. Three Philosophies and One Reality ●●●

    Considered realistically, it is possible to find a belief which synthesizes spiritual religion and scientific truth.

    synthesis of religion and science
14. Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika ●●● January 1996 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima

    I think that Buddhism is not a religion, but philosophy itself

    Buddhism not as a religion

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