I'm not asking for yes or no answers, I am asking that people read the quote below, and let me know if (and how) it speaks to you.
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He exeriences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassioon to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
(from 'Ideas and Opinions', CrownPublishers, 1954)
Erlichda!
2007-04-26 04:19:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First three answers are really very boring. I am not trying to label Einstein, I am asking people to look past the initial impression.
2007-04-26 04:26:39 · update #1
People continue to respond to the tag line, and not look at the subject. Mass marketing response at its best, capitalism at is worst.
2007-04-26 04:31:25 · update #2
He was In Love!
He allowed his Love to penetrate his own inner-self; which, when done, reflects itself back out to the world
He was one with Mind!
He pushed himself aside to view himself within. This view showed him All the world and the world of All.
2007-04-26 04:30:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Einstein was Jewish. He did say though Buddhism was a good religion. He also said he believed in Spinoza's God.
Which if you look at his quotes and his life, is the same as a supreme being. Spinoza did not reject God but only clarified what you thought God was. All of nature and the universe.
Einstein was quoted many, many times, showing that he believed in God.
The quote you show is pretty much what Einstein thought.
2007-04-26 04:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did say:
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatism. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...." - Einstein
Was he a buddhist? I am not sure what that really means. He never seemed to practice it officially. Obviously he respected buddhism more than other existing religions.
2007-04-26 04:31:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was not a Buddhist because he never converted or went through any Buddhist rituals of conversion (that I know of).
The statement he made was as a part of his philosofical theory and not of an established religion as is Buddhism. Althouhg his statement does agree with core beliefs in Buddhism, it is only a similar finding that agrees to the Buddhist dogma.
Originally Einstein was Jewish.
2007-04-26 04:27:02 · answer #4 · answered by electro_johnny 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He'd studied Buddhist philosophy to a degree and liked the logic of it, but wasn't Buddhist in the sense of taking formal refuge vows, or anything like that.
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2007-04-26 05:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. He was Jewish but he did not practice it. He was very tolerant of all religions.
2007-04-26 04:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he was a Spinozist. His God was the God of Spinoza: nature.
2007-04-26 04:22:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, he was Jewish who went to a Catholic school.
2007-04-26 04:23:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I would call him an enlightened Jew.
2007-04-26 14:20:22 · answer #9 · answered by Marvin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋