Buddha b. 580 BC. A Hindu, he believed in reincarnation & taught detachment to end suffering. Believed in “Dhamma Pada” or Dharma Path, essentially the 10 paths of righteousness that include not harming animal life, eating well from grains & nuts & plants, etc. The buddha did not believe in God; was atheistic. We are all God & through meditation can leave the lower paths to attain nirvana & never be reborn into a life of suffering.
The lights seen after death in the Tibetan Book of the Dead were gestated by Tibetans after Buddhism passed into Tibet in 700 AD. Buddha did not speak of many of the variations developed by Buddhists in Tibet, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, China, or Japan. The Sri Lankan Buddhists have been examining the connections between science & religion. Each group has a variation on the basic Hindi concepts conceived of in a different light by buddha who was born on the Nepalese/Indian border.
Transmigration of souls means the body of a person is temporarily inhabited by the soul of another being—animal or human. This soul takes over & makes the slave-body do things it would not naturally do, then leaves. Reminds me of MPD, unconscious complexes, schizophrenia. Some Buddhists believe that w/ the explosion of human population & the concommittant reduction of animal population, animal souls are transmigrating into humans & humans are being born w/ animal souls, thus maintaining the animal population, explaining why so many humans behave like animals.
Many Buddhists have written about this religion & are building on the ideas of others. It is important to get the ideas out there so others can build upon them. My ideas are important & should be published in some form so others can relate to them in the future.
There are contradictions among Buddhists. For example, China was ruled by Tibet for 300 years, so how could Buddhists who are not supposed to fight create an army of warriors? The fact that Tibet ruled China is now used as an excuse for China to rule Tibet; Chinese state that they are the same country by hx. Another contradiction lies in the fact that Tibet is 10-11K feet up, limiting the amount of agriculture, enforcing the need to eat animals, which runs contrary to the need to live a clean life & avoid eating flesh.
Future reading: Dhamma Pada.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Buddha b. 580 BC. A Hindu, he believed in reincarnation & taught detachment to end suffering. Believed in “Dhamma Pada” or Dharma Path, essentially the 10 paths of righteousness that include not harming animal life, eating well from grains & nuts & plants, etc. The buddha did not believe in God; was atheistic. We are all God & through meditation can leave the lower paths to attain nirvana & never be reborn into a life of suffering.
The lights seen after death in the Tibetan Book of the Dead were gestated by Tibetans after Buddhism passed into Tibet in 700 AD. Buddha did not speak of many of the variations developed by Buddhists in Tibet, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, China, or Japan. The Sri Lankan Buddhists have been examining the connections between science & religion. Each group has a variation on the basic Hindi concepts conceived of in a different light by buddha who was born on the Nepalese/Indian border.
Transmigration of souls means the body of a person is temporarily inhabited by the soul of another being—animal or human. This soul takes over & makes the slave-body do things it would not naturally do, then leaves. Reminds me of MPD, unconscious complexes, schizophrenia. Some Buddhists believe that w/ the explosion of human population & the concommittant reduction of animal population, animal souls are transmigrating into humans & humans are being born w/ animal souls, thus maintaining the animal population, explaining why so many humans behave like animals.
Many Buddhists have written about this religion & are building on the ideas of others. It is important to get the ideas out there so others can build upon them. My ideas are important & should be published in some form so others can relate to them in the future.
There are contradictions among Buddhists. For example, China was ruled by Tibet for 300 years, so how could Buddhists who are not supposed to fight create an army of warriors? The fact that Tibet ruled China is now used as an excuse for China to rule Tibet; Chinese state that they are the same country by hx. Another contradiction lies in the fact that Tibet is 10-11K feet up, limiting the amount of agriculture, enforcing the need to eat animals, which runs contrary to the need to live a clean life & avoid eating flesh.
Future reading: Dhamma Pada.
The lights seen after death in the Tibetan Book of the Dead were gestated by Tibetans after Buddhism passed into Tibet in 700 AD. Buddha did not speak of many of the variations developed by Buddhists in Tibet, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, China, or Japan. The Sri Lankan Buddhists have been examining the connections between science & religion. Each group has a variation on the basic Hindi concepts conceived of in a different light by buddha who was born on the Nepalese/Indian border.
Transmigration of souls means the body of a person is temporarily inhabited by the soul of another being—animal or human. This soul takes over & makes the slave-body do things it would not naturally do, then leaves. Reminds me of MPD, unconscious complexes, schizophrenia. Some Buddhists believe that w/ the explosion of human population & the concommittant reduction of animal population, animal souls are transmigrating into humans & humans are being born w/ animal souls, thus maintaining the animal population, explaining why so many humans behave like animals.
Many Buddhists have written about this religion & are building on the ideas of others. It is important to get the ideas out there so others can build upon them. My ideas are important & should be published in some form so others can relate to them in the future.
There are contradictions among Buddhists. For example, China was ruled by Tibet for 300 years, so how could Buddhists who are not supposed to fight create an army of warriors? The fact that Tibet ruled China is now used as an excuse for China to rule Tibet; Chinese state that they are the same country by hx. Another contradiction lies in the fact that Tibet is 10-11K feet up, limiting the amount of agriculture, enforcing the need to eat animals, which runs contrary to the need to live a clean life & avoid eating flesh.
Future reading: Dhamma Pada.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Several cosmologists, including Hawking, have developed the idea that
this means that the Universe is a black hole -- we are living inside an
extremely large black hole, and will one day suffer the fate of any
matter inside a black hole, as spelled out by Penrose thirty odd years
ago. So cosmologists have recently puzzled over what happens at the
singularity at the end of time, the Omega Point. The obvious guess is
that the singularity that marks the death of our Universe marks the birth
of another universal cycle, and this is born out by the mathematics.
But if one singularity can give birth to a Universe, why can't others?
Specifically, what happens at the singularities that form inside black
holes in our own Universe? According to some interpretations of the
equations (and here I have to admit that not everyone agrees on this),
the singularities could form their own baby universes. On this picture,
stuff that falls into a black hole singularity is shunted sideways into
another set of dimensions, its own spacetime. It sounds like science
fiction, but it isn't really--science fiction writers are never as imaginative
as mathematical physicists. Hawking's baby universes are rather like that,
little bubbles on the surface of the expanding balloon, each expanding in their
own right, still connected to the mother Universe by a "wormhole".
And, of course, the baby universes can have babies of their own, while
our Universe may be the offspring of a black hole that formed in
another spacetime. Very quickly, the picture in your mind comes to
resemble a mass of expanding frogspawn, or the froth of a bubble bath
being whipped up ever higher.
This sounds similar to Black Hole, the piece, in which stuff falls into the
singularity & then is spit out--but Hawking says it is spit out into another
set of dimensions.
At least Hawking believes me.
this means that the Universe is a black hole -- we are living inside an
extremely large black hole, and will one day suffer the fate of any
matter inside a black hole, as spelled out by Penrose thirty odd years
ago. So cosmologists have recently puzzled over what happens at the
singularity at the end of time, the Omega Point. The obvious guess is
that the singularity that marks the death of our Universe marks the birth
of another universal cycle, and this is born out by the mathematics.
But if one singularity can give birth to a Universe, why can't others?
Specifically, what happens at the singularities that form inside black
holes in our own Universe? According to some interpretations of the
equations (and here I have to admit that not everyone agrees on this),
the singularities could form their own baby universes. On this picture,
stuff that falls into a black hole singularity is shunted sideways into
another set of dimensions, its own spacetime. It sounds like science
fiction, but it isn't really--science fiction writers are never as imaginative
as mathematical physicists. Hawking's baby universes are rather like that,
little bubbles on the surface of the expanding balloon, each expanding in their
own right, still connected to the mother Universe by a "wormhole".
And, of course, the baby universes can have babies of their own, while
our Universe may be the offspring of a black hole that formed in
another spacetime. Very quickly, the picture in your mind comes to
resemble a mass of expanding frogspawn, or the froth of a bubble bath
being whipped up ever higher.
This sounds similar to Black Hole, the piece, in which stuff falls into the
singularity & then is spit out--but Hawking says it is spit out into another
set of dimensions.
At least Hawking believes me.
Music and the dixieland/quantum uncertainty:
Whatever you think about free jazz, it matches in energy and uncertainty the quantum mechanical universe. Think about how to play free music and it comes off more spacetime than subatomic, more Einstein & less Pauli, more Freud and less Jung. Dixie is like controlled chaos. Jazz varies between controlled chaos and uncontrolled Feynmania. Raise the energy until it all falls apart--free jazz.
Whatever you think about free jazz, it matches in energy and uncertainty the quantum mechanical universe. Think about how to play free music and it comes off more spacetime than subatomic, more Einstein & less Pauli, more Freud and less Jung. Dixie is like controlled chaos. Jazz varies between controlled chaos and uncontrolled Feynmania. Raise the energy until it all falls apart--free jazz.
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