Nyanaponika:
"It is a significant fact that the Bible begins with the words: "In the beginning God created heaven and earth", while the Dhammapada one of the most beautiful and popular texts of the Buddhist scriptures,
begins with the words: "mind precedes things, dominates them, creates them. "These words are transcendental responses of the Buddha, calm and non aggressive but resolved to that biblical belief. Here the paths of these two religions separates: one leads to the remoteness of an imaginary "Beyond", the other leads straight home, to the very heart of man." Free translation by Rafaelo
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