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…in order to know we must trust our ancestors – trust them deeply. Spinoza points out the fact that our knowledge of parentage and the date of our birth is, in fact, what he calls ‘knowledge by hearsay’.*

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*cited:

The Bodhisattva’s Brain

Owen Flanagan

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“… the present situation [is] the fruition of former choices…engage it as the arena for what is to come. …embrace the ambiguity of a present that is simultaneously tied to an irrevocable past and free for an undetermined future.*

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*cited:

Buddhism without Beliefs

Stephen Batchelor

pg. 47

Karma of past lives

I was sure I would never get lost

in the tangled roads of love,

Now I have been caught

in the karma of past lives.

                                                                               ~Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo No Daibu*

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*cited:

The Burning Heart

Trans & Ed, K Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi