If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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We live very close together. So our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable.
What is meant ... By the term "illusion" is that phenomena do not exist independently of other phenomena, that their appearance of independent existence is illusory. This is all that is meant by "illusion," not that something is not really there.
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