The individual feels
the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvellous
order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. He
looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the
universe as a single significant whole, the beginnings of cosmic religious
feeling already appear in early stages of development - e.g. in many of the
Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets. Buddhism, as we have
learnt from the wonderful writings of Schopenhauer especially, contains much
stronger elements of it. The religion of the future will he a cosmic religion.
It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both
the natural and the spiritual, it should he based on a religious sense arising
from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful
unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would
cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
One of Einstein's great insights was to realize
that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. Matter can
be turned into energy, and energy into matter.
E= mc2
E=energy m=mass c=speed of light
The big bang was when energy became matter. The Heart Sutra says "Form is emptiness
and emptiness is form"
Think about this in the light of Einstein's
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