Jeff

“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to meet the challenge of understanding, interacting with, and adapting to an environment that is strikingly different from those in which it has evolved.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
― Eugene V. Debs, Works of Eugene Victor Debs

“Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason.”
― Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist