[MD] What is SOM?

[MarshaV]

At 04:13 PM 8/30/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha:
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>Let me add my thanks to others for these quotes. Interesting indeed! I
>would like to add:
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>Erwin Schrodinger
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>"The external world and consciousness are one and the same thing."
>
>Platt
>

Hi Platt,

Here's another quote by Albert Einstein:

"If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific 
needs, it would be Buddhism."


These quotes all came from an interesting essay on a website.  Here 
is the intro and url:

"The idea for the following little essay actually arose during a 
retreat at Lawudo, in the Solu Khumbu area close to Mount Everest in 
Nepal, while trying to do a retreat on emptiness. Obviously no great 
realization came, but in order to try and penetrate the philosophy, I 
imagined trying to teach it to others. Two major ideas popped up: 
modern Western science and Mount Everest. If I could prove that 
science points in the same direction as Buddhist philosophy, and if 
Mount Everest can be "reduced" to the idea of emptiness, then the 
argument must be convincing."

http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/resources/mountemptiness.html

There are so many ideas within the MOQ that align with 
Buddhism.  Patterns of value are obviously empty of inherent 
existence, and so some of these Buddhists explanations have been an 
aid to my understanding of the MOQ.  And some of the MOQ explanations 
have been an aid to my understanding of Buddhism.  Maybe this essay 
will be helpful to some of you.  I thought it was tremendous.

Marsha






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