I’m making my way into a book by religious scholar Karen Armstrong on the beginnings of our religious traditions. She traces events in the Axial Age (ninth century), when great teachings arose in different parts of the world: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. She writes:
“But how [...]
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Zen master Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) said, “To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things.” The air we breathe, the water we drink, neighbours, loved ones, and strangers all with their peculiarities, the myriad crevices of our bodies and hearts, the places where we walk, work, pray, weep, eat, defecate, sleep, and awake: everywhere, everything. [...]
