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Toynbee was not committed to any one religion. He involved himself deeply in both Christianity and Buddhism but called himself an agnostic. God, he said, was a feeling that "wells up from a deeper level of the psyche." As for man's relationship to that sacred force, Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
...year-old cell biologist, said that he learned about acupuncture during 15 years as a student of Zen Buddhism in Taiwan, and that he is the only person in the world who can cause others to feel their own nerve pathways by placing his hand above the pathway...
...practice of Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and animism has been suppressed. Movement about the country is impossible without a travel permit. Every forum for publicly criticizing the government or party has been destroyed. To break down the traditional Korean family structure, the Communist leadership ordered that lineage records be burned. Neighborhood mutual-surveillance teams have been established with the right to poke into the most private family affairs...
Lotus Sutra. Although Soka Gakkai is based on the teachings of a zealous 13th century Japanese monk named Nichiren Daishonin, who sought to demystify and simplify Buddhism, it has little in common with Zen or other more meditative sects. The emphasis is placed on repeated chanting of the Diamoku, (worship formula) in praise of the lotus sutra. Members must prove their piety by making fresh converts. One of their most debatable practices is shakubuku, or forcible persuasion, which some critics charge has often bordered on brainwashing...
...Sunday busloads at the Great Wall, where fathers carry picnic baskets and tired babies up the high steps and people scratch their names and provinces like American graffiti. But they're big enough. And there are usually people to answer visitors' questions, even if it's only with a "Buddhism! We don't understand it." Students closed down some of the palaces during the Cultural Revolution, but it seems as though visual arts aren't thought as divisive as some other forms of culture might be. Probably it's because they don't demand education as much: they...