Einstein on Buddhism
From TheBuddhism.Net
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual; and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
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Albert Einstein has high regard on Buddhist philosophy in high regard, stating that it represented both a social science and a natural science. Albert Einstein is possibly the greatest scientist mankind has ever produced. His general theory of relatively created a revolutionary change on how scientists have viewed the world. One of the important ideas in Buddhism is that the world all that we can experience and know is illusion. Einstein’s knowledge of Buddhism comes mainly from Schopenhauer a well known German philosopher.
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Amazing by Einstein on the truth of the reality we are in. We are all interdependent with one another and even though we do not recognise one another we are intimately connected through invisible bonds hence to create compassion for others is the correct way to exist.