12/30/2023 0 Comments Dalai lama religion and scienceThe Dalai Lama: Scientist is available on digital platforms from 26 May. Buddhists believe that people should not negate science simply. Artists played traditional welcome tunes as the Tibetan spiritual leader arrived in his open mobile van to preside. The Dalai Lama’s deepest connections seem to be with psychologists and neuroscientists he cheekily jokes to the father of cognitive behavioural therapy, psychiatrist Aaron Beck, that the Buddhists got there first with CBT – “It’s analytical meditation!” Watching the documentary, I kept expecting Stephen Hawking to pop up – can it be that these two rock-star global treasures never met? Buddhists and the spiritual leaders of many other religions support the Dalai Lamas vision. DHARMSALA, India (AP) The Dalai Lama celebrated his 88th birthday on Thursday, as hundreds of his supporters and exiled Tibetans thronged his hillside Indian headquarters in Dharamsala. Buddhism and science are not conflicting perspectives on the world, but rather differing approaches to the same end: Seeking the truth. The structure is divided into five sections focusing on different branches of science each ends with an irrelevant graphic setting out the overlap between scientific thinking and Buddhist teaching. It is indeed a unique feature in world religions, though the Dalai Lama did addmischievously, said Saganthat it will be hard to disprove reincarnation In such areas where a proposition cannot be falsified, religion and science may agree to disagreecivilly or otherwiseor change the subject. I’m not certain that the film takes science as seriously as His Holiness (the gratingly inspirational narration doesn’t help). The American psychologist Paul Ekman, a secularist who walks in sceptical and convinced that Buddhism is a new age fad, walks out a Dalai Lama convert. The archive shows what a natural he is in these conversations, charismatic and with an extraordinary gift for establishing intimacy: all undivided attention, a penetrating question here, a wry, twinkly eyed quip there. Since the late 1980s, he has held more or less annual audiences with distinguished scientists – his own personal Reith Lectures.
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