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**uneniaPhenits** · 02-29-2012, 07:11 PM

This slips around for me, especially as I get deeper into putting Buddhism into practise -- the question of how it fits into the larger world becomes more complex. For instance, while I see that enacting kindness has a great effect and quiet power, other questions develop.

Last night re-reading Huston Smith: "What can certainly be said is that spiritual freedom brings largeness of life. The Buddha's disciples sensed that he embodied immeasurably more of reality -- and in that sense was more real -- than anyone else they knew... Their worlds seemed to expand and with each step they felt themselves more alive than they had been before."

Maybe it is an immeasurable breadth of life, which immeasurability becomes a sense of void... ?

02-29-2012, 07:11 PM	#12
uneniaPhenits Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 684 Senior Member	This slips around for me, especially as I get deeper into putting Buddhism into practise -- the question of how it fits into the larger world becomes more complex. For instance, while I see that enacting kindness has a great effect and quiet power, other questions develop. Last night re-reading Huston Smith: "What can certainly be said is that spiritual freedom brings largeness of life. The Buddha's disciples sensed that he embodied immeasurably more of reality -- and in that sense was more real -- than anyone else they knew... Their worlds seemed to expand and with each step they felt themselves more alive than they had been before." Maybe it is an immeasurable breadth of life, which immeasurability becomes a sense of void... ?
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