Buddhism is a practice, not a belief, and every Buddhist is, in some way, lay clergy - involved in the way a scientist is involved in his or her work, or in the way a writer's mind is involved in writing, present in the background, all the time. (Francisco Varela)

Buddhism is a practice, not a belief, and every Buddhist is, in some way, lay clergy - involved in the way a scientist is involved in his or her work, or in the way a writer's mind is involved in writing, present in the background, all the time.

Francisco Varela

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