Ideas Have Consequences
First CauseFirst Cause
• Matter• Higher Power
–Impersonal–Personal
• Matter• Higher Power
–Impersonal–Personal
What
is
Humanity?
How Can I Fix Me?
As salt dissolved in a jar of water can be tasted but not found in the bottom middle or top of the jar so it is
Brahman is present in everything that exists
“If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him” Lin Chi—Famous 9th century Buddhist Master
“Truth is one; the wise call it by different names.” Rig Veda
Joshua ben Joseph
PROBLEM OF EVIL
• Learned• Setting• Nature
What
of
Morality?
• Extinction• Part of the Whole• Judgment
• Extinction• Part of the Whole• Judgment
Meaningless
Cycle
Linear