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Why People Don?t Believe in Egolessness 1 Citation Ask yourself, How do you know that the earth revolves around the sun? That George Washington was the first president of the United States? That objects persist over time?Well, everyone knows these things! Well then, you need to ask, How do they know?In Buddhism knowing is a big deal, because ignorance is the root of samsara: the cause of all our suffering. Ignorance includes both not knowing, which is mental darkness, and delusion, which is believing things that are false, such as believing that, technorati.com
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1 Citation ?Why Do Some People Resist Science?? illuminates the way we acquire many of our beliefs (see the previous post). It also puts forward one belief that needs to be challenged, which is that, ?The strong intuitive pull of dualism makes it difficult for people to accept what Francis Crick called ?the astonishing hypothesis.? Dualism is mistaken ? mental life emerges from physical processes.?I have no problem with the first part of the statement about the intuitive pull of dualism. That makes sense., technorati.com
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Materialist Metaphysics, Continued 1 Citation The old DuPont slogan, ?Better living through chemistry,? expressed the Twentieth Century?s faith in material progress. At one point, Prozac and other new antidepressant drugs seemed to be the crowning fulfillment of this dream. Why be depressed when you can take this little pill and feel better? I could tell that things were getting a little out of hand when I discovered that my sister was feeding chicken-flavored Prozac to her cats.Faith that brain chemistry determines our mental experience is, technorati.com
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1 Citation Buddhism and ScienceSingapore, August 10, 1988 Revised excerpt from Berzin, Alexander and Chodron, Thubten.Glimpse of Reality. Singapore: Amitabha Buddhist Centre, 1999. Question: Could you speak more about the relationship between Buddhism and science, and give some specific examples of points that they share in common?Answer: The dialogues between Buddhist masters such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama and scientists have focused so far primarily on three areas. One is astrophysics, concerning pr, technorati.com
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B Alan Wallace - Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science 1 Citation Nice talk from Wallace, one of my favorite Buddhist teachers. Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science (December 8, 2006) The Jefferson Tibetan Society of Charlottesville, VA was pleased to sponsor, organize and host a Public Lecture by Dr. Alan Wallace on December 8, 2006. Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science The pluralistic and naturalistic perspective of Buddhism offers an alternative to the false absolutes that appear in the idols of religion and science. The Buddh, technorati.com
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