science

• Now we have science, which explains things with a very powerful method. It's stronger than religious explanation

  Karma, Cause and Effect July 2009 — Brno

The most important texts

1. Life Itself Is Intelligent ●●● July 2021 — Skalní fara

   it's very important for people who are searching for the truth — we can call them Buddhists — to be aware of science

   autopoiesis · Buddhism and science · life as an emergent property · life itself is intelligent · plant going round a stone
2. Reality is the Present Moment ●●●

   We have found a link between what Buddhism insists is the nature of reality and what science says.

   Buddhism and science · David Bohm · religion of science

Other texts

3. MMK 3: Cutting Through Categories ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

   The whole living thing that’s not thinking separately from being is still intelligent

   life itself is intelligent · meditative insight as imagination
4. Introduction to Master Dogen’s Thought ●●● May 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima

   The new religion should have the power to synthesize idealism and materialism, in other words, to synthesize religion and science

   synthesis of religion and science
5. Why We Practice Zazen ●●● August 1987 — Gudo Wafu Nishijima

   Therefore, in the modern age, we have a confrontation between religion and science, and many people suffer from this confrontation.

   conflict between religion and science
6. Uji 1: The Depth of the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Uji

   although the scientist wants to be an observer, and has to be in order to be objective, they can’t help participating in it

   participating in the world
7. MMK 2: Non-Separation ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

   But life itself, unseparated, contains intelligence. We can live life without separating it

   life itself is intelligent · world without beginning or end
8. The Relation Between the Autonomic Nervous System and Buddhism ●●●

   I have found it very useful to explain Buddhism on the basis of scientific knowledge

   Buddhism and science
9. Uji 5: Words and Reality ●●● Winter 2004 — Uji

   it’s very difficult for scientists to come up with a model for how we produce speech

   scientific models of speech
10. Uji 3: The Complete Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Uji

    science, of course, is founded on the belief that the present is caused by the previous moment

    cause and effect in science
11. Uji 4: Coming into the Present ●●● Summer 2007 — Uji

    when we make a wholehearted effort, we are not interpreting the world, we're participating in the world

    participating in the world
12. Karma, Cause and Effect ●●● July 2009 — Brno

    Now we have science, which explains things with a very powerful method. It's stronger than religious explanation

    science and religious explanation
13. Three Philosophies and One Reality ●●●

    Considered realistically, it is possible to find a belief which synthesizes spiritual religion and scientific truth.

    synthesis of religion and science
14. The Concept of Now in Dogen’s Philosophy ●●● Shobogenzo · Uji

    Einstein conceived that time is always relative to the observer. He showed that it is not always linear

    time relative to the observer
15. Introductions 1: Rules and Reality ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters

    The atom was never put forward as an actual description of reality, but as a model

    model of the atom
16. Uji 3: The Changing State of Zazen ●●● Winter 2004 — Uji

    But in Einstein’s space-time continuum, we still have process. In Master Dogen’s space-time, or existence-time, there no continuum

    existence-time and Einstein’s space-time
17. Bussho 4: Hearing and Understanding ●●● Winter 2005 — Bussho

    Buddhism can’t agree with the Big Bang theory because Gautama Buddha says the world has no beginning and no end

    world without beginning or end
18. Ikka-no-myoju 5: The Four Views ●●● Summer 2006 — Ikka-no-myoju

    He talks about relativity. Not in the mathematical terms that Einstein does

    Dogen and relativity
19. Kuge 2: Coolness in the Centre of Fire ●●● Winter 2007 — Kuge

    People who studied what reality is, in those days, to him, were Buddhist monks.

    monks as researchers of reality
20. MMK 1: The Four Conditions ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

    we’re pursuing the same thing from a different angle as the physicists in the large hadron collider project

    hadron collider and its spin-offs
21. Dojo and Home, Sacred and Ordinary ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenec

    this mitochondria used to be a single cell, and was eaten by another cell

    mitochondria as an eaten cell

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