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[MarshaV]

Thanks Adrie.  It's important to post the cite address for 
those who might like to investigate/expand the context.  

Marsha




On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:59 AM, ADRIE KINTZIGER wrote:

> 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>
> 
>> 
>> Huh?
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:43 PM, david buchanan wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Adrie said to Marsha:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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."
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha asks dmb:
>> 
>> Where is the url that is home of these quotes?  I cannot find them in the
>> Wikipedia topic 'Buddhism and psychology'.
>> 
>> Here's where I looked:
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_psychology
>> 
>> Please in the future include the url/address.
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha


 
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