Does anyone want to tell me why more people have a problem with Osama bin Laden than the Dalai Lama?
I don't know if religion influences culture more than culture influences religion, but the too are indeed connected. But does this make religion the problem?
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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
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