March 2011
4 posts
The Dream of the Ants
Excerpt from Contact by Carl Sagan: “Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have dinner with the Abbot. “Their position seems to be,” Vaygay replied dryly, “that their God is so great he doesn’t even have to exist.” As they sped through the countryside, they talked about Utsumi, the Abbot of the most famous Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan. A few years before, at...
“Do Buddhists believe in God, or not?” Ellie asked on their way to have...”
– from Contact, by Carl Sagan
