The Universe Is Awash with Life
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The universe is highly equitable in terms of location. Does
the universal prevalence of evolution point to the endless diversity
and abundance of life, or is it a symptom of samsara?
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The Interpenetrating Web of Existence
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The entire universe of space and time is present in a speck of
dust. If the speck of dust knows about the entire universe,
does the entire universe know about the speck?
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My Karma Just Ran Over Your Dogma
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In the face of eternity, even the sacred is as ephemeral as the
clouds. Is being comfortable with impermanence a hopelessly
Eastern concept, or just hopelessly West Coast?
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The Void Is Out There
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If everything is connected to everything else, then what is the
permanent essence of anything? If human beings are simply the sum of
all their connections, then is there any such thing as an individual?
Or are human beings different from everything else?
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A Miraculous Web of Beauty
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Compassion and altruism are fundamental to human nature. This
"fact" is central to Buddhist ethics.
Are greed and aggression also fundamental to human
nature? Aren't they also "facts"?
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The Mind is a Part of Things
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At the molecular level, the mind operates on the level of quantum
uncertainty. But then, so does the rest of the universe.
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The Permanence of Impermanence
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Are we condemned by a life of mutability and constant change or
blessed by it? If we and our universe are under constant change,
how does something as improbable as life ever arise, let alone
the complex phenomenon of consciousness?
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The Consensual Reality We Create with Others
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Reality is what we make of it. If you and I make different worlds,
are we forever separated? Are all attempts at communication at
heart acts of coercion?
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