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Notice how meaning is so elusive on this forum (even for simple things like what is meaning?) and how difficult it is to communicate - but we do the b...

I would put it slightly differently. I would say (as the Daoists believe) that everything seems to be constantly changing (evolving) because we (our i...

Possibly more fixed than others but almost all have multiple possibilities with new possibilities (slang terms) being created all the time. Impermanen...

Meaning is a continuous developing process that originates with some observations of some sort that create a qualitative memory within oneself. It is ...

I would like to mention that Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism and Daoism were and still are experiential in nature. It is when practitioners wish...

Nothing zen about it. Meaning is just an arbitrary temporary description that is assigned subject to change. There is nothing permanent about it. Simi...

Accept that everything everything is in flux and that any symbolic meaning is a practical, albeit incomplete tool, for communication. It has limits an...

I don't believe anyone involved with Buddhism ever speaks of parallel universes. The concept of infinite upon infinite number of parallel universes an...

I think you will make a great guru. You have the right attitude. Thanks for the real world demonstration.

I won't ask how you came to this conclusion.

This is how new branches of Buddhism are developed. Because Buddhism is decentralized, it it's relatively easy to start creating one that conforms to ...

Thank you for sharing your ideas. It b is always interesting for me penetrate deeper into the process of thoughts and conveyance thereof. As a person ...

One more thought regarding Buddha. It appears his motivation was in response to the unfairness of the Hindu Truth of the caste system which is still a...

Yes, I would share the general ideas that you present. For myself, I find that exploring without stakes in the ground (truths) not only permits greate...

As long as you are using the concept of desire it has to be emanating from somewhere. Are you suggesting it is emanating from the gene (a physical ent...

The question of what is Buddhism and what are it's teachings is rather fluid with thousands of variations depending upon motivations of teachers and s...

The issue it's imbuing notions such as "desire to procreate" into genes.

The first idea I share with you. However, the second part appears to be anthropomorphism. In particular your own. There are many people who live life ...

This is what happens when people claim that 1) There is truth 2) That someone lays claim to it. Buddhism and Buddha probably initially held the vantag...

When one uses symbols to represent thought (as is done in logic), one loses the essence of thought and action as a continuous whole. The judgement and...

This is it pretty much in a nutshell. Problems arise for those of either faith when they try to create a combination of free will and determinism (fat...

The way I would frame it, is not that the child is aware, but rather that the memory persists. The child's "self" it's this memory. And, yes, all lear...

I guess this is one way to frame it. In any case, there is nothing much more to discuss. Different life forces at play.

If you haven't observed that science is constantly changing (yes, even gravity) than there is nothing more to say. We have two different life experien...

They are no more and no less physical than they already are. I am only referring to memory and quantum fields as being real. How you wish to character...

Exactly. What I am attempting to do is to present some new paradigms for exploration and research that cross several disciplines. I would like to see ...

There is nothing as far as I can tell that is supernatural about memory, life, or quantum fields. I am using them as fundamental constructs. The unive...

Given my model of memory bring imprinted holographically into the fabric of the quantum potential, it may be possible under certain circumstances for ...

The concept of soul had existed for time immemorial so it it's not a new age concept per se. However, my interpretation in light of more modern concep...

I was responding to your conclusion: "SO my take-away is roughly that if re-incarnation is taken as the self entering into a new life, then Buddhism d...

I would be careful with this takeaway. There are as many interpretations of reincarnation as there are Buddhist teachers. This is not the Catholic Chu...

The brain structure would be a quantum field potential which it's encoded with memory. It is not two dimensional. The memories we carry essentially de...

Without getting into the multitude of Buddhists concepts of reincarnation, memory of self might persist if memory is holographically imprinted into a ...

I was trying to avoid the obvious out of respect for all those who believe we all live in the same universe, brains and all.

The article discusses research that provides evidence that the whole universe is a hologram.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170130083231.htm

Here is a brief exposition on the subject. I never thought God as being logical or religion for that matter. I always thought that both were a matter ...

This is how switches work in order to achieve their purpose, but this is not how holograms are constructed and reconstructed. The photos themselves ar...

This would be a God without omnipotence which might be a problem for some.

The ones and zeros is a symbolic representation. A hologram or a quantum potential field would be continuous and entangled. There would be no clear bo...

It's a puzzle and different clues lead one to contract a model that fits all of the pieces together.

One can consider "out there" as a feeling of extension from the core. There are the waves and there is an ocean. There is no distinction between the t...

The way to look at it as a Calvinist might is that we do have thoughts, and judgement and everything else it is just that it was all inserted in us by...

Yes, even a once removed quote in the same language presents problems (as we are observing in real-time). Context matters. However, in the case of Bud...

I cannot discuss you without utilizing my perceptions of you. We both use the name jorndoe because we agreed to it. If course, you can mediate or be a...

I don't think Buddha can be quoted since he didn't write anything down, and even if he did, it would be subject to translation of a very old language ...

They all seem to be entangled in some way, which would be the basis of subjectivity and why each one of us view and label things in our own way but at...

It appears that the central ideas of Buddhism have much more to do with this life than next life. Here seemed to be concerned with happiness of others...

There must be a relationship (mind-body-health) and those with the most creativity and energy will further research and understanding. Once accomplish...

The effect of mind on health is indisputable. Maybe psychologists will be the ones to investigate this phenomenon further (and reap the rewards) and p...