RE: Help me out here, Ex Buddhists.
March 16, 2015 at 3:43 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2015 at 3:47 am by tantric.)
(March 15, 2015 at 11:43 pm)Chuck Wrote: Does quantum mechanics stand to such reason as you might learn through Buddhism? And does Buddhism expand your common sense so much you can intuit the predictions of quantum mechanics?
Parts of it, yes. The nonduality part, especially. I don't find QP confusing at all - the idea of a completely objective or subjective universe is obviously unworkable. Reality isn't boolean. That statement is a translation, and I suspect a bad one, and it's not actually the Buddha, but if you think that matters, well...
"“Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, ‘This contemplative is our teacher.’ When you know for yourselves that, ‘These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness’ — then you should enter & remain in them." is the Hindu original.
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