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Science & Buddhism

“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour .”
- William Blake
in Auguries of Innocence

Image (c) Matthieu Ricard

“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.”
- Albert Einstein

- Slide show Science & Buddhism

- For a more detailed treatment of this subject, see the book "The Quantum and the Lotus", co-written with Matthieu Ricard.