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.
Mindfulness In Plain English
by Mahathera Henepola Gunaratana
You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that, changes flow naturally. You don't have to force or struggle or obey rules dictated to you by some authority. You just change. It is automatic. But arriving at the initial insight is quite a task. You've got to see who you are and how you are, without illusion, judgement or resistance of any kind. You've got to see your own place in society and your function as a social being. You've got to see your duties and obligations to your fellow human beings, and above all, your responsibility to yourself as an individual living with other individuals. And you've got to see all of that clearly and as a unit, a single gestalt of interrelationship. It sounds complex, but it often occurs in a single instant. Mental culture through meditation is without rival in helping you achieve this sort of understanding and serene happiness.
