I Go On Living, More From Force

The Purpose Of Scientific Method Is To Select A Single Truth From Among Many Hypothetical Truths. That, More Than Anything Else, Is What Science Is All About. But Historically Science Has Done Exactly The Opposite. Through Multiplication Upon Multiplication Of Facts, Information, Theories And Hypotheses, It Is Science Itself That Is Leading Mankind From Single Absolute Truths To Multiple Indeterminate, Relative Ones.

Mental Patterns Do Not Originate Out Of Inorganic Nature. They Originate Out Of Society, Which Originates Out Of Inorganic Nature. And, As Anthropologists Know So Well, What A Mind Thinks Is As Dominated By Biological Patterns As Social Patterns Are Dominated By Biological Patterns And As Biological Patterns Are Dominated By Inorganic Patterns. There Is No Direct Scientific Connection Between Mind And Matter. As The Atomic Scientist, Niels Bohr, Said, "we Are Suspended In Language." Our Intellectual Description Of Nature Is Always Culturally Derived.

To Live Only For Some Future Goal Is Shallow. It's The Sides Of The Mountain That Sustain Life, Not The Top.

You Go Up The Mountaintop And All You're Gonna Get Is A Great Big Heavy Stone Tablet Handed To You With A Bunch Of Rules On It.

There Is A Perennial Classical Question That Asks Which Part Of The Motorcycle, Which Grain Of Sand In Which Pile, Is The Buddha. Obviously To Ask That Question Is To Look In The Wrong Direction, For The Buddha Is Everywhere. But Just As Obviously To Ask The Question Is To Look In The Right Direction, For The Buddha Is Everwhere.