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Baraka_Guru · 09-25-2006, 07:26 PM

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas 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, 1954.

From Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman.

It is all too evident that our moral thinking simply has not been able to keep pace with such rapid progress in our acquisition of knowledge and power...It is no longer adequate to adopt the view that our responsibility as a society is to simply further scientific knowledge and enhance technological power and that the choice of what to do with this knowledge and power should be left in the hands of the individual...By invoking fundamental ethical principles, I am not advocating a fusion of religious ethics and scientific inquiry. Rather, I am speaking of what I call 'secular ethics' that embrace the key ethical principles, such as compassion, tolerance, a sense of caring, consideration of others, and the responsible use of knowledge and power -- principles that transcend the barriers between religious believers and nonbelievers, and followers of this religion or that religion.

-The 14th and current Dalai Lama

Source:
Dalai Lama Gives Talk On Science: Monk's D.C. Lecture Links Mind, Matter
By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111201080.html

Is this the future? Is this now? Whether we believe in gods doesn't matter, perhaps. But how do we answer the questions of morality? What is compassion and where does it come from? Who decides what is good and what is evil? What is the source of all of this? Is it human made? We can agree on these things only if there is an underlying set of principles. And to suggest that these are human by design would leave open the possibility of them being corrupted. Anything human in nature is susceptible to corruption.

09-25-2006, 07:26 PM	#104 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas 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, 1954. From Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. It is all too evident that our moral thinking simply has not been able to keep pace with such rapid progress in our acquisition of knowledge and power...It is no longer adequate to adopt the view that our responsibility as a society is to simply further scientific knowledge and enhance technological power and that the choice of what to do with this knowledge and power should be left in the hands of the individual...By invoking fundamental ethical principles, I am not advocating a fusion of religious ethics and scientific inquiry. Rather, I am speaking of what I call 'secular ethics' that embrace the key ethical principles, such as compassion, tolerance, a sense of caring, consideration of others, and the responsible use of knowledge and power -- principles that transcend the barriers between religious believers and nonbelievers, and followers of this religion or that religion. -The 14th and current Dalai Lama Source: Dalai Lama Gives Talk On Science: Monk's D.C. Lecture Links Mind, Matter By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111201080.html Is this the future? Is this now? Whether we believe in gods doesn't matter, perhaps. But how do we answer the questions of morality? What is compassion and where does it come from? Who decides what is good and what is evil? What is the source of all of this? Is it human made? We can agree on these things only if there is an underlying set of principles. And to suggest that these are human by design would leave open the possibility of them being corrupted. Anything human in nature is susceptible to corruption. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot