Jul 24, 2025
"...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
Huston Smith
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"...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
Huston Smith
Vedānta proposes different paths of life tailored to human temperaments—jnāna for intellectuals, bhakti for those who are emotional, karma for industrious individuals who like to work, and rāja for contemplative people who profit from meditating. A verse in the Bible admonishes us to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart [bhakti], with all thy soul [rāja], with all thy strength [karma], and with all thy mind [jnāna].” But in the Bible the four paths are compressed into a single verse; Vedāntins wrote books on how to walk each of those four paths.
Huston Smith (1919 – 2016) American scholar of religious studies, in the forward to American Veda (2010), by Philip Goldberg
The world is awash with beauty and heavy with sensual delights.
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116)trans by Robert Thurman
Huston Smith, Tibetan Book of the Dead
"What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
Huston Smith
Book of the Day - Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Book of the Day – Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Today’s Book of the Day is Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul written by Titus Burckhardt and published in 1997 by Fons Vitae (the book was originally published in 1960, in German, under the title Alchemie, Sinn- und Weltbild). Eminent Swiss metaphysician and scholar Dr. Titus Burckhardt (1908 – 1984) was an expert and a leading member of the Perennialist or Traditionalist…
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The Religions of Man by Huston Smith
The Sopranos: “College”
For anyone wondering why I'm suddenly so interested in religions, I recently started questioning my belief in Buddhism when my cat Smokey got really sick and almost died. I kind of did a deep dive into it and decided maybe it's not for me after all after following it for like the last five or six years at least.
I just got this book called The World's Religions by Huston Smith and I'm still at the very beginning but I'm really curious and ready to learn all about the different religions of the world. There's probably as many as there are countries so a lot to learn!