
EP 4: Occidental and Oriental Ideas
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Difference Between Your Baby and the Buddha
When Buddhism went to China, the Buddha states 563 to 483 BC. By about 500 AD it was well integrated into Chinese life and then went to Japan. In Japan you get in touch with good primary paganism. None of this notion that nature is corrupt,. There's this wonderful word that comes through the Shinto texts. The processes of nature cannot be evil. And so one finds one's nature again. But now finally to conclude this, let me tell one little anecdote more. This is my favorite with respect to Oriental teaching.
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