Buddhism & science

Three kinds of books there are. First, those that give nothing and from which we demand nothing. These constitute the greater portion of the book-world; empty entertainment for...

People who call for a resuscitation of vanished faith, and by some means or other hope to see it effected, know not what it is that they hope and call for. They are calling for...

In one of the Buddhist monk’s chants there occurs the phrase, “One single thing--he thinks it out!” This, in few words, is what the Buddha did. He thought out to an end, _one_ t...

The latter is a something existing of itself, a something existing of its own authority, _i.e._ a creation of faith; _whilst an in-force has being solely in dependence upon its...

This word is most frequently translated, “the circling round of re-births,”--a rendering that may easily lead to a false conception. Where the entire universe is nothing but a h...

The same, to be sure, is said by every school of criticism. Hume and modern psychology say so with unequivocal clearness, but none of them go beyond negation. They confine thems...

Again: Science makes shipwreck on the boundlessness, so to speak, of her results. Make a beginning where she will, everywhere there opens before her a new, unending series of fa...

Whoso has comprehended the play of world-events after the manner of the Buddha, to such an one it becomes ever more clear that science, with her pretensions to furnish us at som...

All unspoiled, natural thinking and feeling proceeds by way of immediate effectuation. The never wholly-eradicable idea of magic, as it still survives to-day--one last little re...

A living being so constituted that it must and can take up something _into itself_ simply does not exist. Such a living being is only to be found where one is dealing with the c...

The like holds good of the latest branch of psychology, the working out of prerequisite conditions of function. On all hands a similar scene meets the eye. Each new result, each...

The fact that a chemical compound decomposes, that its constituent elements are set free, always implies that from another direction forces more powerful are coming into play. D...

The greatness of this statement lies in its truly scientific exactitude, in its purely mechanistic apprehension of things. Just as the physicist, when he speaks of force and mas...

So much for the attitude of the Buddha-thought to the biological problem. To procure acceptance for such views, a broad high-way would first need to be driven through the jungle...

Any third view is impossible, for, from the strictly epistemological standpoint, opposites, between them, always comprehend the whole. From the standpoint of strict epistemology...

Hence the necessity of ever and again laying out fresh frontier domains, such as bio-chemistry, bio-kinetics, and so forth and so on, so as to be able to say with Lady Macbeth,...

A Buddha, in short, is a man who dares to _live_ this his insight that there are no concepts and accordingly nothing conceived, but only a “conceiving.” Hence his attitude towar...

The perfumed brutality of our civilization has its root in false ideas of the meaning and significance of life, from which results a false appraisement of life-values. We take t...