The First of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths
The first of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths:
“Life is Difficulty”
Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.
Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.
Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world.
“God does not play dice with the Universe.”
He hoped to find a hidden design that would somehow reassure him of the beauty and artistry of the world.
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The following comes from
“What Life Means to Einstein:
An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,
“The Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 26, 1929, p. 17.
Some portions of this interview might seem questionable, but this portion of the interview was explicitly confirmed by Einstein.
When asked about a clipping from a magazine article (likely the
Saturday Evening Post) reporting Einstein’s comments on Christianity
taken down by Viereck, Einstein carefully read the clipping and
replied, “That is what I believe.” See Brian pp. 277 – 278.
On Jesus
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“To what extent are you influenced by Christianity”
“As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the
Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the
Nazarene.”
“Have you read Emil Ludwig’s book on Jesus?
“Emil Ludwig’s Jesus,” replied Einstein, “is shallow. Jesus is too
colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can
dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.”
“You accept the historical existence of Jesus?”
“Unquestionably.
No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of
Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with
such life.
How different, for instance, is the impression which we receive from an
account of legendary heroes of antiquity like Theseus. Theseus and
other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.”
“Ludwig Lewisohn, in one of his recent books, claims that many of the
sayings of Jesus paraphrase the sayings of other prophets.”
“No man,” Einstein replied, “can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor
that his sayings are beautiful. Even if some them have been said
before, no one has expressed them so divinely as he.”
On Buddha, Moses, and Jesus
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Our time is distinguishedby wonderful achievements in the fields of
scientific understanding and the technical application of those
insights. Who would not be cheered by this? But let us not forget that
knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and
dignified life.
Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high
moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.
From Goldman, p. 88.
# Goldman, Robert N., Einstein’s God? Albert Einstein’s Quest as a
Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God (Joyce Aronson Inc.;
Northvale, New Jersy; 1997).
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If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus
taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests,
one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social
ills of humanity.
It is the duty of every man of good will to strive steadfastly
in his own little world to make this teaching of pure humanity a living force, so far as he can. If he makes an honest attempt in this
direction without being crushed and trampled under foot by his
contemporaries, he may consider himself and the community to which he belongs lucky.
From Einstein’s book The World as I See It (Philosophical Library, New York, 1949) pp. 111-112
Greater Things Than Jesus
It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what
is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
From W. I. Hermanns “A Talk with Einstein,” October 1943, Einstein Archive 55-285
The Kingdom of God
One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless
community of human beings that strive for truth. I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
From Goldman, p. 98.
# Goldman, Robert N., Einstein’s God? Albert Einstein’s Quest as a
Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God (Joyce Aronson Inc.;
Northvale, New Jersy; 1997).
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- Einstein said:
“NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL SOMETHING MOVES” -
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Why do we struggle? What is the essence of struggle, what is
the essence ambition? Surely, conflict is the essence of ambition.
Why are we so everlastingly ambitious at all levels of our existence?
The so-called spiritual man, the sannyasi, the man with a beard, the
politicians, the merchant, the man who is acquiring knowledge?they are all
ambitious.
Why? Why this conflict and struggle?
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From: “To LOVE without Conflict” J. Krishnamurti.
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“Mind is held in a pattern; its very existence is the frame
within which it works and moves. The pattern is of the past or the future, it is
despair and hope, confusion and Utopia, the what has been and the what should be. With this we are all familiar. You want to break the old pattern and substitute a ‘new’ one, the new being the modified old.
You want to produce a new world.
It is impossible.
You may deceive yourself and others, but unless the old pattern is broken completely there cannot be a radical transformation.
You may play around with it, but you are not the hope of the world.
The breaking of the pattern, both the old and the so-called new, is
of the utmost importance if order is to come out of this chaos. That is why it is essential to understand the ways of the mind.
Is it possible for the mind to be without a pattern, to be free of
this backward and forward swing of desire?
It is definitely possible.
Such action is living in the now. To live is to be without
hope, without the care of tomorrow; it is not hopelessness or indifference.
But we are not living, we are always pursuing death, the
past or the future. Living is the greatest revolution.
Living has no pattern, but death has: the past or the future, the what
has been or the Utopia.
You are living for the Utopia, and so you are inviting death and not life.”
“Living Is the Greatest Revolution” – The Book of Life
(September 25) J. Krishnamurti.
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“I am inclined to see Thurman not only as a holy man but also as a prophet who is preparing the way for the coming millennium…a millennium in which we, as world citizens, will either rejoice in the unity found in our diversity or else destroy each other in some final nuclear apocalypse.”
Fasching, Howard Thurman: 192.
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On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” also taped Friday* and aired Sunday,
Clinton told interviewer Tim Russert that the biggest problem
confronting the world today is:
“the illusion that our differences matter more than our common
humanity.”
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* Friday September 22, 2006
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“I want to know God’s thoughts…the rest are details.”
Albert Einstein
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Note:
Hi friends,
Mind, Energy, People, Time, Money.
IF you BELIEVE that HARMONIZING…
SQ= Spiritual Quotient…………. SOUL
PQ= Physical Quotient………….. BODY
IQ= Intellectual Quotient……… MIND
EQ= Emotional Quotient……….. HEART
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Who I’d like to meet:
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Buddha, Caesar, Jesus, Napoleon, Lincoln, Gandhi, Einstein, Martin Lutherking,
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+ anybody bringing some new way of thinking: new paradigm shift…
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