This is awesome!

“The Dalai Lama’s confidence in “critical investigation” means that “if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims,” he wrote in “The Universe in a Single Atom.””

Holy shit that is refreshing.

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Would someone nominate the Dalai Lama for Pope please.

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The Dalai Lama is impressive… I purchased “The Universe in a single atom audiobook by him and he agrees that if Buddhism is wrong, science must be the answer (or something to that effect, not a exact quote). Well anyways, it’s a great audiobook that shines allot of light and makes you think… I play it over and over on my Ipod along with many other science audiobooks.

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Wow, got to the end and was more impressed by the Dalai Lama than I was by the scientists.

“Science has lost something”, “science has no empathy” or some such rubbish.  Sod off, it’s called a hard science for a reason, you want empathy go do psychology.  Facts are cold hard facts they have no moral or emapthetic value.

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For Arri Eisen, a biology professor at Emory, teaching the monks and nuns helped him consider “how to nurture positive thinking. Western education doesn’t nurture empathy.”

Actually keddaw it was more that the West has lost something not science.

“For Arri Eisen, a biology professor at Emory, teaching the monks and nuns helped him consider “how to nurture positive thinking. Western education doesn’t nurture empathy.

Science may be far advanced in the West, but a moral vacuum exists, said Bryce Johnson, an environmental engineer who coordinates the Science for Monks program. “There’s something lost in the West,” Dr. Johnson said. The meeting of science and Buddhism is “a healthy exchange that is as much for the scientists.”

Michael

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This is only natural.. Buddhism encourages critical thinking..

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