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Transcultural Buddhism: Purifying the Past with Vajrasattva, the New Year Buddha
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Monday, 30 December 2013. Purifying the Past with Vajrasattva, the New Year Buddha. That's what many of us say on the first of January - and it isn't just about the after effects of New Year's Eve. Never, ever, again! New Year is the traditional time for kicking old harmful habits, and resolving to stop causing further hurt to ourselves and others. Gives us a fresh. Harmful, negative tendencies. And states of mind. We think o...
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Transcultural Buddhism: Disembodied minds and consciousness without the brain
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Tuesday, 3 February 2015. Disembodied minds and consciousness without the brain. Does the mind need the brain in order to function? Can there be such things as disembodied minds? Can minds exist without matter? According to Buddhist process philosophy, there is no logical reason why not. Process Philosophy and the Mind. Process philosophers claim that processes, rather than things or substances, are at the basis of reality.
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Rational Buddhism: The Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle and Buddhist Philosophy.
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The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice. Sunday, 5 February 2012. The Church-Turing-Deutsch Principle and Buddhist Philosophy. The Church Turing Deutsch (CTD) principle states that a universal computing device can simulate every physical process. Church Turing Deutsch principle. Is a wider and more general restatement of the 'Unreasonable Effectiveness' of mathematics in science and engineering. To quote Michael Nielson. We do not blink an eye to be told that a computer is...
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Transcultural Buddhism: Collateral damage
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Saturday, 9 January 2010. Xenophobia or militant secularism? In earlier posts I blogged about the danger of the rising European backlash against Islam. Producing collateral damage to harmless 'foreign' faiths such as Buddhism, due to guilt by association and cultural xenophobia ( here. Aren ’t no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst.". A plague on both your houses. A large proportion of the country believes that the ...
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Transcultural Buddhism: Delusions in Buddhism
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Sunday, 17 August 2014. The basis of Buddhism is that we all suffer from delusions, and only by reducing, and eventually completely removing those delusions, will we find happiness. Most people, on first meeting these teachings, are likely to be extremely skeptical. After all, most of us don’t see pink elephants, think that we’re Napoleon, or believe politicians' promises. So in what way are we deluded? Although we may unders...
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Transcultural Buddhism: Meditation - short term craze or long term opportunity for the growth of Buddhism?
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Thursday, 26 March 2015. Meditation - short term craze or long term opportunity for the growth of Buddhism? Suddenly everybody’s meditating. From stressed-out film stars and business executives, to senior citizens trying to slow down the effects of ageing. We’re all suffering from information overload, and a favorite way to bring order to the chaos of our minds is to meditate. Is this an opportunity. The Core of Awareness.
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Rational Buddhism: Buddhism and Science
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The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice. Wednesday, 4 July 2012. When religion and science collide. By some process unknown to geneticists, this 'fall' has transmitted 'original sin' to all Adam and Eve's descendants. Consequently all the people on earth are now sinners and have incurred both God's holy wrath and their own shame and guilt (even without doing anything! All are therefore in utter need of redemption by the One True Religion. Scientific vs Religious Truth.
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Rational Buddhism: Qualia in Meditation - Analytical and Placement Meditation
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The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice. Saturday, 18 June 2011. Qualia in Meditation - Analytical and Placement Meditation. Here are brief excerpts from The New Meditation Handbook by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Regarding the relationship between procedural (analytical) and qualitative (placement) thought-processes in meditation. Note how the procedural mental process is used to generate a qualitative state of mind. As a 'quale' (singular of qualia). A leap into the abyss.
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Rational Buddhism: Algorithmic compression and the three modes of existential dependence in Buddhism
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The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice. Saturday, 14 January 2012. Algorithmic compression and the three modes of existential dependence in Buddhism. In Buddhist philosophy, all functioning phenomena are said to exist in three ways, known as the three modes of existential dependence:. Mental Designation or Meaning. 2) Compositional and structural dependency. Sometimes known as 'mereological' dependency'). The parts of a functioning phenomenon are known as the 'basis of de...
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Rational Buddhism: Confronting Materialism and the Fallacy of the Mechanistic Mind
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The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice. Thursday, 25 July 2013. Confronting Materialism and the Fallacy of the Mechanistic Mind. 1 WHAT IS MATERIALISM? The debilitating effects of materialism don't just affect religions; they despiritualise all in their path, degrading art and encouraging brutalism. Believes that all great art has a 'spiritual' dimension, even if it is not overtly religious. It is this transcendence. Of the mundane that we recognise as 'beauty'. Have fail...
