Beyond the Self by Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer

Author:Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: neuroscience; philosophy of mind; psychology; Buddhist monk; Buddhism; self; consciousness; brain; contemplative science; meditation
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2017-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Wolf:

I begin to understand you. Longing for happiness and minimizing suffering is the drive, but to get there, you need to make your internal model concordant with the “real” conditions of the world. Accordingly, we should be able to identify some of these wrong views and wrong ways of thinking.

Matthieu:

To eliminate wrong views is one of the chief goals of the Buddhist path.

A Summary

Wolf:

Matthieu, we had a wonderful morning. I would just like to recapitulate what we discussed. We had an in-depth discussion of epistemic questions comparing Western and Buddhist sources of knowledge, the latter being mainly introspection, mental practice, and observation of the world after having purified one’s mind…

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