Reason is what we need now

Kenneth Leong
5 min readApr 30, 2020

In this special moment in history, I don’t need to tell you that what we need now is reason, not blind faith. We have our POTUS opening advising using disinfectants as treatment for the Coronavirus. If this does not sound an alarm, I don’t know what will. Clearly, this is not the time for blind beliefs or anti-intellectualism.

The Buddha is about reason, not faith (i.e. belief without evidence). In this position, he…

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Kenneth Leong

Author, Zen teacher, scientific mystic, professor, photographer, philosopher, social commentator, socially engaged human