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Book cover for After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
As a metaphor, “to enter a stream” implies that one is no longer trapped in cycles of habitual behavior that lead nowhere but has been released from the grip of those habits to flow freely without impediment.
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“But desperation easily turns into fanaticism. People adopt inflexible views as a comforting defense mechanism when they find themselves threatened and overwhelmed by forces they cannot control.”
Stephen Batchelor, After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

Stephen Batchelor
“The experience of nirvana marks a turning point in an individual’s life, not a final and immutable goal. After the experience one knows that one is free not to act on the impulses that naturally arise in reaction to a given situation.”
Stephen Batchelor, After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

“Les plus grands crosseurs que j'ai rencontrés vous planteront leurs yeux dans les vôtres. Le regard qui fuit dit toujours plus de vérités que celui qui confronte.”
Marc Séguin, La foi du braconnier

“The sage’s ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] “love” or “hate.”  Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.”
Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“So long as “mind” survives, “religion” will also exist.  But no religion will persist in the silence that results from looking within.  It is the ego that comes up, in the form of saying, “my religion should be embraced by all.”
Robert Wolfe

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