Historical Roots

• The Judeo-Christian missionary mandate—particularly Christianity's emphasis on evangelism—has long sought to subsume other traditions into itself.
• By "digesting" the spiritual and philosophic...

One can develop cultural knowledge through newspapers, movies, travelling to various countries, and interacting officially or personally with people of different cultures, learning new traditions, customs, cuisines, and rich new ways to live life.

One can identify and analyse the differ...

Western philosophical traditions tend to distrust spontaneity since it supposedly clears the way for the dominance of brute animal instincts and dangerous passions.

Conversely, Zen thinkers believe that intuition, in a healthy soul, is more important than conscious reflection and that evolu...