vedanta
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- all our energy and time for research on matter not internal world this this skull small space but a lot of mysterious things still there the great field of knowledge is as Tiny as the Earth is in the universe I mean it's a T it's a spec in and the the the universe is what we don't know and it will always be that way this however however much we find out it will still be that way because the unknown is vastly is it's unspeakably great the Brahman— Documentary - The Buddha - PBS Documentary (Narrated by Richard Gere)
- say, "A right," I always get a little mental question, "Where does this right come from, exactly?" I'm not saying that there is no use for the term right, but I think it needs to be thought about rather more carefully than we do. Anyway, I think this is what happens, and I can see certainly movements in Eastern civilizations, which all my life have fascinated me. I'm probably a Daoist. I'm probably a Buddhist, and I'm very interested in the Vedanta. And in these traditions— Iain McGilchrist: "Wisdom, Nature and the Brain" | The Great Simplification #85
- which we ordinarily call myself. What we are fundamentally is this unthinkable source of life and existence named Brahman the expansive. Nor must we confuse this unthinkable— Eastern and Western Zen | 08| Eastern Wisdom | Alan Watts
- sense where the world uh is not to be considered identical with Brahman in the sense that it's not really there and Brahman is the only reality which exists but rather— Eastern and Western Zen | 08| Eastern Wisdom | Alan Watts