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[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science

Here , Marsha, it was a subarticle, a metabranch
Article's nested within other article's.
greetzz, Adrie


2010/12/5 MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>

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> Huh?
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> On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:43 PM, david buchanan wrote:
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> > Adrie said to Marsha:
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> > Hmm, yes , i was aware of it, please keep in mind the "Timewindow"
> William was living in, in that time , he was far ahead of everyone, in this
> frame, during that time, it was all state of the art.  ...James planted the
> seeds , some live on , some not. The survivors are still cutting edge of
> insights.
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> > dmb says:
> > As I understand it, a lot of what James said over a hundred years ago is
> just now being vindicated. His notions about the stream of consciousness
> were directly translated from Buddhist terms AND the most advanced of
> today's brain scanners are proving him right. Here's a little Wikipedia on
> the topic...
> >
> > Buddhism and psychology
> > During the 1970s, several experimental studies suggested that Buddhist
> meditation could produce insights into a wide range of psychological states.
> Interest in the use of meditation as a means of providing insight into
> mind-states has recently been revived, following the increased availability
> of such brain-scanning technologies as fMRI and SPECT.
> > Such studies are enthusiastically encouraged by the present Dalai Lama,
> Tenzin Gyatso, who has long expressed an interest in exploring the
> connection between Buddhism and science and regularly attends the Mind and
> Life Institute Conferences. ...
> > William James often drew on Buddhist cosmology when framing perceptual
> concepts, such as his term "stream of consciousness," which is the literal
> English translation of the Pali vinnana-sota. The "stream of consciousness"
> is given various names throughout the many languages of Buddhadharma
> discourse but in English is generally known as "Mindstream". In Varieties of
> Religious Experience James also promoted the functional value of meditation
> for modern psychology. He wrote: "This is the psychology everybody will be
> studying twenty-five years from now."
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> Marsha asks dmb:
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> Where is the url that is home of these quotes?  I cannot find them in the
> Wikipedia topic 'Buddhism and psychology'.
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> Here's where I looked:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_psychology
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> Please in the future include the url/address.
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