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.
What Buddhists Believe?
by K. Sri Dhammananda
Detachment is one of the most important factors for the attainment of Enlightenment. The attainment of Enlightenment is by way of non-attachment. Most of life's troubles are caused by attachment. We get angry, we worry, we become greedy and complain bitterly. All these causes of unhappiness, tension, stubbornness and sadness are due to attachment. When we investigate any trouble or worry we have, the main cause is always attachment.
