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Shares No-Self(2): Dependent Arising
2018-7-4 14:27
As mentioned previously, this essay is aboutDependent Arising(缘起), the mental process through which our mind responds to things causing either duhkha or a sense of nirvana. The teachings onDependent Arising lie in the very heart of almost all Buddhist thoughts. From the ...
Individual Classification: Buddhism|562 views|0 replies
Shares No-Self(1): Buddha's Critique of the Notion of "Self"
2018-6-23 16:41
In the "No-Self" series of writings, I am going to walk you through two core Buddhist ideas about human mind in plain English: first, the doctrine of "No-Self"(无我); second, Dependent Arising(缘起) whereby our mind responds to things causing either duhkha or a sense of nirvana. The former and the ...
Individual Classification: Buddhism|614 views|0 replies
Shares Are We the So-called "Big Children"?
2018-6-1 18:14
On this particular day, adults often joke at each other, sending "Happy Children's Day, my dear big child" on SNS. Occasionally, friends and colleagues might reply: Thanks. I am a 80kg big boy, where's my Children's Day present? Imagining the appearance of a 80kg big boy rings me the question——ar ...
Individual Classification: Weekly Writing|562 views|0 replies
Shares Writing in June: Buddhism Proceeds and Children Development
2018-5-31 13:39
I've been tied up these days. At the beginning of this month, I planned to finish Buddhism writings in May, but I didn't make it. Two important topics left I want to discuss:divnbsp;first, Buddha's critique of the notion of Self. This critique formed one of Buddhist core ideas about human mind: ...
Individual Classification: Weekly Writing|571 views|0 replies
Shares Noble Truths (2): Buddha’s Prescription of Human Predicament
2018-5-27 19:32
Have you ever watched the anime ‘ Naruto ’(《火影忍者》)?If you haven’t, it is perfectly fine skipping the following two paragraphs. If you have, I am going to review some characters and plot in the anime in the scope of Buddhism as an opening. Remember the rebel force, “Akatsuki(晓)”? ...
Individual Classification: Buddhism|1028 views|0 replies
Shares Putting Evolution Back into Buddhism
2018-5-17 11:26
This essay is about viewing Buddha’s diagnosis of human predicament in the scope of evolutionary psychology. When I started writing this essay, there are several scenes from the movie The Matrix (1999) wandering in my mind. If you haven’t seen the movie, that’s all right, for the scenes ...
Individual Classification: Writing in Psychology|529 views|0 replies
Shares Noble Truths (1): Buddha’s Diagnosis of Human Predicament
2018-5-9 21:18
A Few Words Forward Before heading to the theme, I want to address the issue of Buddhist languages in the first place for clear annotations of terms in later writings. According to Rupert Gethin’s book Foundations of Buddhism , before Sanskrit ( 梵文 ) became the canonical ...
Individual Classification: Buddhism|451 views|0 replies
Shares Writing Themes in May: Lessons from “Secular” Buddhism and Its Evidences
2018-4-30 17:02
Last year, I read the book Why Buddhism is true , by Robert Wright. The author revaluated Buddha’s teachings in the scope of modern psychology (“Modern Psychology” refers to psychology embraced a scientific method and advancing as a science, which started from mid 19th Century) and his fi ...
Individual Classification: Buddhism|409 views|0 replies
Shares Perception: Our Mind’s “Eye”
2018-4-28 13:00
Perception is a tricky concept, for it always goes hand in hand with our senses, especially our visual senses and when it happens, we usually can not report what’s going on. Perception gives us a vague feeling that something should be like this or like that. For a better understanding, we nee ...
Individual Classification: Writing in Psychology|444 views|0 replies
Shares “Que sais-je”: Current Conception of Mind
2018-4-20 10:53
I’ve been reading Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow again these days and a chapter titled The Equation of Life reminds me of a TV Series I watched on Channel 4 several years ago. It is called Humans , starred by Gemma Chan (the actress of Soolin Yao in Sherlock Season 1), and Co ...
Individual Classification: Writing in Psychology|469 views|0 replies
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