You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.