[Buddha-l] The Universe Story

[Jo]

The Universe Story begins with the Big Bang and ends with the destruction of
the earth's environment and most human societies by unregulated
transnational corporations run by greedy capitalists who have forgotten that
we are all made from the same materials that originally came from the Sun,
which in turn came along as an inevitable consequence of the Big Bang. It's
a whopping good story. It will be interesting to see what the students make
of it. (I'll warn them, of course, that they are being brainwashed.) I am
hoping it makes them just a little uncomfortable. As Swami Vivekananda
observed (in last week's reading), if people want a religion that makes them
feel comfortable, they want something that leaves them as they are rather
than something that helps them be what they could be.

Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
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Yayyy---a book that might speak to my condition too.

Joanna