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The four messengers <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Origin of Philosophy | September 11, 2014<\/span><\/div>\n
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The origin of philosophy is wonder. It\u00c2\u2019s a sense of being astonished, a sense of waking up to the fact that you\u00c2\u2019re here rather than not here. And I would take that also to be what the Buddha was awakened to on seeing a sick person, an old person, a corpse.<\/span><\/p>\n
– Stephen Batchelor, “Going Back to the Source” <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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