What Is Zen? Simple, Simple,

'blessed Are The Poor In Spirit, For They Shall See God' Suggested To Me A Heavenly Welfare Program For The Meek. Today That Saying Reveals An Astute Insight Into Egotism, About How Those With Swollen Pride Or Vanity Cannot See Anything Larger Than Themselves.

After His Great Awakening, The Buddha Continued To Meditate And To Devote Himself To Others; Otherwise His Vision Would Have Receded Into A Pleasant Memory.

A Religion Made Up Solely Of Heightened Religious Experiences Would Not Be A Religion At All. ...the Major Religious Traditions Address The Mysteries (with Or Without Entheogens), But They Have Other Business To Do: Widen Understanding, Give Meaning, Provide Solace, Promote Loving-kindness, And Connect Human Being To Human Being.

Plato Described Ordinary Life As Unthinking, Lived In A Dim Cave Of Shadowy Reflections, But Said That It Is Possible To Leave The Cave And See Things In Sunlit Clarity As They Actually Are.

Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality; To Master The Self.