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The Kingdom of Heaven
When you begin to believe in something, that's the danger. The pointer becomes a mental concept that you believe in so it becomes an idol. You can't do that with Buddhist terms, so it's difficult. I mean, they've done it, but especially with the Buddha himself, emptiness, do you believe in emptiness? The Church of Emptiness. But all it is saying is exactly the same. Jesus said, heaven means the sky, and the sky is vast spaciousness. So he looked at the sky and he said, this vast spaciousness, the sky actually doesn't even exist. It just seems to be because nobody has ever arrived there.