Buddhism
<p>Jan 26, 2011 09:47 AM
 
Huston Smith summation of Buddhism:
 
<b>Infinite gratitude to all things past; </b>
<b>infinite service to all things present; </b>
<b>infinite responsibility to all things futur</b>e
 
Zen meditation with its apparently nonsensical <em>koans</em> offers a way to unchain the mind from its infinite associations and just let a <b>sunset be a sunset.</b> Seeing a sunset as a sunset may seem like a pretty empty victory to someone who has never experienced it, but for those who have, it <b>“brings joy - at-one-ment, a sense of reality that defies ordinary language</b>.”
 
As Smith and Novak correctly state: "All religions are paradoxical." When the Infinite takes form and is squeezed into the Finite, all attempts by the finite mind to comprehend and explain it will have to be, by their very nature, false in some way.
 
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