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Re: Similarities between the philosophical concepts of Vedantic Atman and Buddhist Em Nick, Vajradhara, Guan Yin and Avalokitesvara has the same meaning, ie. He who hears the cries of the world. Guan Yin is just a shortened form of the Chinese translation of the meaning of Avalokitesvara...

If the veiling of a woman's face is to prevent men from being tempted by a beautiful face, why were beautiful women created in the first place? Alternatively, why were men created to find beautiful women tempting? If the purpose of creating of beautiful women is to test men's ability to resist...

Here's my own idea: The book is the ultimate reality and is "5-dimensional" comprising 3 dimensions of space, one dimension of time and one dimension of basic awareness. Our current reality is part and parcel of the ultimate reality. Our current reality comprises all the experiences of...

I like your post Z. I am curious as to how others would respond to it.

Re: Similarities between the philosophical concepts of Vedantic Atman and Buddhist Em The difference is that Advaita Vedanta philosophy is monistic whereas Buddhist philosophy is not. Note that Buddha Sakyamuni himself had studied with Hindu masters, practised their instructions and were well...

As I see it, as long as there are humans, there will always be differences of opinions and therefore disagreement. Why? Because (1) each of us have only a limited amount of knowledge (2) based on the limited knowledge, each of us come of our own conclusion (3) each of us think that our...

Dr Tegmark position is more mainstream compared to Dr Hameroff's. ERH is more likely to be held by those who have no personal experience of mental phenomena, such as clairvoyance, that cannot be explained if the mind is merely an emergent property of the brain. I know from personal experience...

I was referring to radiation near the event horizon of a black hole. Stuart Hameroff MD believes that the consciousness penetrates the quantum level. I reckoned he would say "yes" to your question as to whether it could impact the thinking process. As for myself, I am keeping an open mind.

If there are no virtual particles, another device will be needed to explain Hawkins radiation.

Did the founder has his own definitions for Susila, Buddhi and Dharma or are the meaning the same as that used by Hindus or even Buddhists?

If you define God as something that actively cause all these things to happen, then I have a problem. If you define God as something impersonal, then it is fine with me.

Thanks, but they don't go beyond the physical. Besides, while chaotic, the process is in effect still rather deterministic. If this is evidence for design without designer, I would prefer the simpler explanation of no designer. Introducing a designer creates far more questions and subsequent...

Verse 48 “Who understands this?” one might wonder; It’s those who see dependent origination. The supreme knower of reality has taught That dependent arising is unborn.

I see a problem in that when I use certain terms, I was using it in the context of my understanding of Buddhism. This can be quite different from how it is understood by non-Buddhists. The word 'reality' is a good example. For me, it is not possible to speak becoming reality itself or being part...

"Arising and disintegration" refers to both coarse and subtle impermanance. What Nagarjuna was saying was that there is really no real arising and disintegration. Therefore to hold to the idea that phenomena or things are but an unending series of real causes and effects is also not tenable.

I did not say that reality is unknowable, merely that it cannot be spoken of because it is without referent. When I said we cannot experience it, I am using the word 'experience' in the conventional sense, namely the way we experience things while we are still unenlightened. By the very...

So the I that experience existence as an illusion is not an illusion? To me it reflects the stages that Teng Lu went through. Namely, a deluded state followed by a state in which the emptiness of all things is realized, and finally a state in which the equivalence of samsara and nirvana, the...

No I was not offended by your musings nor did I feel that you were evangalising. No worries on that front. I just felt that what I was saying might not be suitable/acceptable to you. And that is fine by me as we are all informed by different experiences and knowledge.

Buddhism does not teach ontological non-duality. It merely says that the real reality that one "experiences" as a completely enlightened being is something that has no referent and therefore cannot be spoken of. Words like dual and non-dual, real and unreal, existing and non-existing, etc cannot...