On a freezing eve deep in November of 1619, after an intense day of prayer and meditation, the brilliant twenty-three year old French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes (1596–1659) had an...
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Author: David Paul Boaz
You will not find happiness until you stop seeking it. —Chuang Tzu What you seek is already present. —Jesus of Nazareth The nature of mind is Buddha from the beginning… Realizing the purity ...
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For no light matter is at stake. The question concerns the very way that human life is to be lived. —Plato (The Republic, Book I) In the 2nd century CE two great scholar-masters—Nagarjuna in the E...
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We all take refuge in something. Too often such refuge is hedonic and materialistic. The engaged Buddhist practitioner takes refuge in something far more powerful. The Buddhist three refuge sources ar...
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We all take refuge in something. Too often this refuge is hedonic and materialistic. The engaged Christian spiritual practitioner takes refuge in something far more powerful. There are three refuge so...
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Gravity Behaving Badly: Problem and Opportunity Gravity—Wheeler’s mystical “Great Smokey Dragon”—is the entropic creator and destroyer of worlds. What/who is it? With any cogniti...
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The Limit of Scientific Method Scientific theory and ideology evolve in historical time. Scientific theories “true” 100 years ago are history. Just so, Newton’s G has evolved into Ei...
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Much Ado About Nearly Nothing With the demise of our spacetime foundational background—the physical space/place where stuff happens—goes pernicious Scientific Imperialism: doctrinal Realism/Materi...
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The Collapse of Objectivity: Non-Locality is Quantum Emptiness “The essential fact of quantum mechanics is entanglement” (Leonard Susskind). It was this “lucid mysticism” (Paul...
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Toward a Centrist Noetic Science of Matter Mind and Spirit Value-free science? Science’s “fact/value” dichotomy is a misleading modernity myth. Science is quantitative and qualitativ...
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The Two Truths are Dōgen’s Being-Time Dōgen Zenji, Japan’s greatest Zen master, spoke of the emerging dimension of relative time and its phenomenal contents—the spacetime dimension of ...
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Human Happiness With a bit of mindfulness practice (shamatha/vipashyana)—“the quiescent basis for peace and all higher knowledge”—we train the “wild horse of the mind” to...
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On Knowing What There Is: Buddhist Emptiness The question of ontology is not whether things exist. Of course things exist! The proper ontic question is, how (not why) do things exist? “Everyt...
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Ontological Extremism, a Middle Way, and the Light of the Mind What is real? Who am I? In Buddhism the Abhidharma of the Sarvastivada and Vaibhashika Schools, along with Democritus, Aristotle and our ...
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Enjoy the space between your thoughts. Begin by sitting in a chair with your back straight. Place your hands comfortably in your lap, legs uncrossed, feet flat on the floor. Or sit on a cushion, legs ...
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Ontological extremism, a middle way, and the light of the mind. In Buddhism the Abhidharma of the Sarvastivada and Vaibhashika Schools, along with Democritus and his master Leucippus, and Western fu...
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Being Here. The masters of all the times have told it: the happiness that cannot be lost lives in our relationship with the infinite, that aware luminous source of finite reality undreamt of in the...
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The emptiness of mind is not a state of mind; it is our original mind that includes everything within itself….the nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness. —Suzuki Roshi Relat...
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. —John Muir Science’s view of science, as exempli...
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There is not the slightest difference between samsara and nirvana. —Nagarjuna We have seen that our post-transcendental Principle of Ontological Interdependence informs us that the conceptual Two Tr...
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