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bowl. Every Buddhist monk has a beggar's bowl.
You are just imitating the outward signs and thinking that, if you can perfectly imitate all outward signs and symbols, perhaps the inward experience will automatically happen. This is not so. It has no relationship. You can eat the same food. That does not mean you will become a Buddha.
You can study religions. They are all dead. Science can study corpses. That's what science does. In every medical college you can find corpses being studied. Science cannot study anything living, for the simple reason: the moment you dissect it, it dies. I suspect, and perhaps one day my suspicion will be found to be true, that when you study the blood of a man, you take the blood out and you study it. That is dead blood. You are not really studying the blood that is alive in the man.
It is like you cut my finger and you study it. Do you think the finger that you have cut and studying is my finger? It is dead!
So all the studies of blood, all the studies about human body are not really about the real living organism. You take something out of it. The moment you take it out of it, you have taken out of its living context. It is something dead. And this is about small parts.
And science has not been able yet to find anything that it can pin-point as life, for the simple reason: If you dissect a man you have killed him already.
It is like you are studying dance. But to study the dance, you have to stop the dancer because his dance disturbs your study: "You keep still and let me study the dance". But while he is still there is no dance. You can have either the dancer, or you can have the dance. You can't have both together to study.
Religions can be studied because they are corpses. But what is the point of studying corpses? They should be taken to the crematorium. You will not find, by studying them, what religion is.
The basic approaches are diametrically opposite. Science goes outwards. Religion goes inwards. The whole effort of science is to demystify existence. That's the whole purpose of science.
Science divides existence into two categories: the known and the unknown.
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