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Truth is alive. Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. Facts are abstractions equivalent to images frozen in space and time, but truth is a continuum of motion. People accept physical laws and apply extraordinary effort to understand those laws by seeing their effects in material reality, but they employ little effort toward determining the parameters within which human beings function. They recognize that nature holds people accountable for...

The contemplation of nature only reveals a God of nature, a God of motion and change. It does not afford ground for logical belief in human-personality survival, nor does it in any satisfactory manner reveal a personal God. Nevertheless, it does logically point in the direction of intelligent guidance and discloses nothing which would preclude the universe from being looked upon as the handiwork of the God of religion. While God may not be found through the contemplation of nature alone, for someone...

“Faith” is almost universally understood by both theists and atheists as the measure of certainty in a body of unsubstantiated ideas. This is not a true understanding. That faith is concerned only with the grasp of ideal values is shown by the New Testament definition which declares that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. I do not need words, ideas or reasons to live in my heart as though God is fundamental; that no thing or being—actual or relative—exists...

[CENTER][COLOR="DarkRed"]Words! Words!
The Way is beyond language,
for in it there is no yesterday,
no tomorrow
no today.[/COLOR]
—[I]Seng-Tsan, Third Zen Patriarch [/I]

[COLOR="DarkRed"]“Preach the gospel at all times.
If necessary, use words.”[/COLOR]
—[I]Saint Francis of Assisi[/I] [/CENTER]


Man is…a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols and dreams and not merely matter. His...

Hsin Hsin Ming - Verses on Faith Mind

by Seng-Tsan, Third Zen Patriarch - Translated by Richard Clarke
[QUOTE]
[CENTER]The Great Way is not difficult for those not attached to preferences.
When neither love nor hate arises, all is clear and undisguised.
Separate by the smallest amount, however, and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth.

If you wish to know the truth, then hold to no opinions for or against anything.
To...