Sunday, March 16, 2014

Rough Outline


  • Personal Reason for Starting Mentorship (particularly on Buddhism)
    • Give some details regarding Buddhism --> What is the point of practicing Buddhism?
    • Mindfulness -- How that has played a major role in not only my understanding of Buddhism, but also my understanding of the way we should approach understanding everything.
  • Relationship between Buddhism and Physics - We cannot see the world as it is. (why?)
    • Buddhism: The practice of seeing the world as it is
      • The one obstacle that we face is that of suffering
      • The Noble Eightfold Path is the way in which we can access this "true"/"real" world
        • Not really a path, but rather a pattern. Each individual component is what we could call a phenomenon. 
          • We can observe phenomenon (in other words: an actually defined event)
          • A phenomenon is one piece of the large puzzle of reality --a drop in the ocean
    • Physics: The study of the way things are 
      • Humans have issues studying quantum mechanics because we have very little access on the quantum level. 
      • Once again, what we observe are phenomenon (patterns) that are manifested.
        • These phenomenon are only a piece of the puzzle, however they help us understand the larger context.
        • We are not limited by only our perception, but our perception is a limitation (an idea I still need to work on) -- that's not a great explanation. 
      • Explain double slit experiment in detail
      • The Big Bang is just one phenomenon that we could observe, but it is just one event in the scheme of reality.
  • Although it might seem like a paradox (science and religion) this paradox is only a phenomena, not the entire picture. As physics and buddhism shows, both relating to the nature of reality, that reality involves science and religion to work together. 
  • Ideas to work with:
    • Observations create phenomenon, which play a part in the grand scheme of reality
    • Are observations limitations (meaning that there is more we can see, but choose not to see) or are we limited by observations (meaning that were are only one small part of the universe, and there is no way for us to truly understand the nature of reality because we ourselves are just a phenomenon)?
    • There is nothing outside of the universe because the universe is expanding into empty space -- therefore we have to be a part of the universe -- observation from the inside
      • "We are the universes way of experiencing itself..."

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