We igion.
In case anyone thinks they
- "gan sit: down, practise

more. that acother: oe meditation or go to yoga
on igh” we _were-set—-up-in classes: and- attain. enlight:
_ ~judgem nt over the gods. ment a few years or

‘that one needs _a vast ac-
‘cumulation of- * knowledge
and merit, and must have
carried through innumerable
heroic deeds, all of which

: Of course, most of u us takes
the easy way out and-
automatically adopt the
religion 0 ‘of. our parents, to.
the point, ‘after a’ while, of. might take “three kalpas”

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ourselves that it-amounts to,~ ae
an ethni identity. A kalpa? It is a period of

The’ truth is, genes and _ ‘time equal to the birth and
theology. should never be. death -of .an entire world
mixed.” Whenever they are;;. system,~-which is analogous
disaster follows. I need only to the lifetime of a spiral

- mention. the tensions in the . nebula. -

enue

Mid-East to. make my.case. - By way of a_ simile,
In the Cosmic “Bazaar, Buddhists describe a kalpa
~- ~~ where the ‘shingles, of all:the as the time it takes a man to

' sects are hung out and.all the
. messiahs. are ‘on hand to
_ expound their points of |
view, mone has so _ far
-prevailed over all the others.
I think we can fairly draw .
the conclusion that the issue
of which religion is the
religion has not been solved
- except, of course, to the
satisfaction of the adherents
of each and every faith.
To outside observers, it's
still a “theological pinball ©
machine.

wear down a mountain much
bigger tharthe Himalayas by
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century, witirahe. very finest.

So when I say I “lean”.
toward ‘Buddhism, I only
really mean that it postulates |
certain, very appealing §;
concepts that stimulate my
brain. co

For instance,.in the idea of -
“enlightenment”, meaning
awakening to a perfect state
such as the Buddha attained,
there is an underlying
perspective quite absent

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As for numbers, some say
a kalpa only lasts. 1,344,000
years and others calculate
that it “lasts” 1,280,000,000
years: =

During all these. aeons, ‘we

ate ate « e birth

death and rebirth during
which our various deeds

_ create a-karmic’ field which
in turns: determines how we .
experience the world — as:—

heayen or hell.

In Buddhism, ‘the creative
power of ethically relevant
actions is taken for granted.

-is the notion that the various |
living hells are produced by

the deeds: of the creatures
who arerebornthere.

These two elements — the
jong view and the belief that
one’s fate in any given
lifetime is determined by
karma - have the effect of
giving life a truly awesome
depth and meaning.

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