The monks informed Usui that the route to uncovering the lost jewels of healing could only be found on the path of the Dharma, the Buddhist teachings, which illumine the path to Enlightenment (Stein 9). The life of Christ has many parallels to the life of the Buddha, and many of the brightest lights in antiquity have uncovered the seed of Enlightenment in the Buddhist manner (Stein 9). ... Some historians and philosophers speculate that the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth traveled in his youth (during the period that is unknown of his life) seeking out the wisdom traditions of the day....

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Among the names mentioned in the poem are Plato, Jesus, and Lao Tsze, who were all known as founders of philosophy and religion that are still practiced and referred to today. ... This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ...

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Galileo wrote:By the aid of a telescope, anyone may see that all the disputes which have tormented the philosophers through so many ages are resolved at once by the unmistakable evidence of our eyes, and we are freed from wordy disputes upon this subject, for the Milky Way is nothing else but a collection of innumerable stars planted together in groups? ... In 1597, his friend, Jacopo Mazzoni, a philosopher, published a book against the motion of the Earth. ...

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The Thought of One Ayn Rand, the author of many inspirational novels is one of the most controversial authors of the twentieth century. She defines her self as, "I am not primaraly an advovate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recog...

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As Michael Bliss says, "this pattern of violence followed by enlightenment continually reasserts itself, a horrifying situation since it makes violence a prerequisite to self-awareness.... As the Catholic philosopher Paul Ricoeur says: Guilt becomes a way of putting oneself before a sort of invisible tribunal which measures the offense, pronounces the condemnation, and inflicts the punishment; at the extreme point of interiorization, moral consciousness is a look which watches, judges and condemns; the sentiment of guilt is therefore the consciousness of being inculpated and incriminated ...

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His treatment of theological and ecclesiastical subjects stems from his dis- trust of organized religions. ... He lived like a philosopher."7 But Jefferson had not given his collection a detailed arrangement as a casual exercise in philosophical taxonomy. ...

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