Welcome to Project Buddha Society
Buddha developed a profound and detailed, universal theory of unity, which accounts for everything related to mind and consciousness. How mind and consciousness work and why, etc. Buddha obtained his deep insights by means of mental techniques and training. Using his own mind as both research equipment and research object, his approach was at least as scientific as that of modern science.
Contemporary quantum physics and cosmology are close at a universal theory of unity of everything. However, before a scientific theory is entitled to be called truly universal, the phenomena mind and consciousness must be accounted for by that theory. The crucial thing is that only a properly trained mind itself can experience and ponder mind and consciousness empirically.
So far, the scientific approach of physics has led to a profound understanding of realms of reality, which are way beyond the imagination of most non-physicists. What seems to be lacking at the frontiers of contemporary physics is an empirical-scientific exploration of mind and consciousness. The overall purpose of this site is to explore to which extent the Buddhist empirical mind explorations can assist at these frontiers.
Excerpt of the Day
Each day we bring a new excerpt from our Favorite Books Online.
The Noble Eightfold Path
by Bhikkhu Bodhi
To eliminate ignorance we need wisdom, but how is wisdom to be acquired? As indubitable knowledge of the ultimate nature of things, wisdom cannot be gained by mere learning, by gathering and accumulating a battery of facts. However, the Buddha says, wisdom can be cultivated. It comes into being through a set of conditions, conditions which we have the power to develop. These conditions are actually mental factors, components of consciousness, which fit together into a systematic structure that can be called a path in the word's essential meaning: a courseway for movement leading to a goal. The goal here is the end of suffering, and the path leading to it is the Noble Eightfold Path with its eight factors: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
