Who said this?

"The great scientific contribution in theoretical physics that has come from Japan since the last war may be an indication of a certain relationship between philosophical ideas in the tradition of the far East and the philosophical sustance of quantum theory."

I think therefore I am

-Rene Descartes

Who said this?

"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."

What does this phrase mean?

"A finger is needed to point to the moon, but we must see the moon, not the finger.

Who said this?

"The map is not the territory"

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The ____ structured the language, the ____ ability to define reality.

Where is this quote from, and who said it?

"The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao."

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Avidya (ignorance) results in a ____ mentality which created an isolated ego.

"Unity and Change"

1) unity and interrelation of all.

2) intrinsically dynamic nature of the universe.

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The modern physicist has come to see the world as a system of inseperable interacting and evermoving components with the ____ being a(n) _____ part of this system.

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This book aims at showing there is a(n) _______ ______ between Easten wisdom and Western science. 

Fill in the blank of this Zen saying:

"The instant you _____ about a thing you miss the mark."

Who said this?

"The seeing plays the most important role in Buddhist epistemology, for seeing is at the basis of knowing. Knowing is impossible without seeing. Seeing is experience enlightenment."

Who said this?

"My prediliction is to see because only by seeing can a man of knowledge know."

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Eastern "____" is akin to western "____"

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Theories, myths, etc. are all models to describe the authors' _____ of reality.

Who said this?

"The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the atoms, but we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."

Who said this?

"The most difficult problem concerning the use of the language arises in quantum theory. Here we have at first no simple guide for correlating the mathematical symbols with concepts of ordinary language, and the only thing we know from the start is the fact that our common concepts cannot be applied to the structure of the atoms."

Who said this?

"I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours 'til very late at night and ended almost in despair. When at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the park and I repeated to myself again and again the question: can nature possible be as absurd as it seems in these atomic experiments?"

Fill in the blanks:

Chi flows through the body in a system of _____, flowing between _____ and _____.

Who said this?

"Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable."

Who said this?

"Absolute, true, and mathematical time of itself and by its own nature flows uniformly without regard to anything external"

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As a result of Modern Physics a(n) _____ description of nature is invalid.

Fill in the blanks:

"That which is the finest essence - this whole world has that as its soul. That is reality. That is Atman. ____ ____ ____." -Upanishads

Fill in the blank:

"Reality is _____"

-Nagarjuna

What idea is described by this quote?

"The sage avoids excess, extravagance, and indulgence"

-Lao Tzu

What concept is described by this quote?

"Those who flow the natural order flow in the current of the Tao"

Who said this?

"Zen is the discipline of enlightenment."

This is "understanding reality through language"

Finish this quote:

"Before you study Zen, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers; while you are studying Zen mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers..."

"Before you study Zen, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers; while you are studying Zen mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers

But once you have enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and rivers again rivers."

Who said this?

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our questioning."