The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
Robert M. PirsigHow are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.
Robert M. PirsigCommunism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
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