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...housand times, they become truth (As was demonstrated in our common paper “Logic: a Misleading Concept”, opinion can be made up of field, and when mo... ...Liaofan’s Four Lessons is a classical example. 3. The Integration of Logic What is the essential distinction of logic from conventional descr... ...The essence of fact and rule has been described once in our common paper, “Logic: a Misleading Concept,” as is again discussed below: Fact as a kin... ...hen the field is strong enough to convince a portion of people, it becomes logic – facts or rules. However, people are normally self centered. Essen... ... to http://www.amtb.org.sg/2/2_10/2_10_1/2_10_1.htm, a link in the Dallas Buddhist Association (http://www.amtb-dba.org/English/index.html), to find... ...ld fast in my mind. It is not until recent years, when I came across some Buddhist classics, that I began to realize: 1. Everyone has goodluck and b... ...r Zhong Daolong using the traditional “discipline, meditation and wisdom” Buddhist perspective. However, its implementation calls for a new social en... ...e disaster of human beings, and is willing to begin a new life in the pure Buddhist land, he should avoid all temptations (however tempting), such as... ...nable) “In fact, this belief of ‘it is’ is always critical (Buddhism). In Buddhist saying, all such beliefs are created by ourselves.” The point is:...

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...he had shagged impudently in the illusion of love in quiet retreats behind Buddhist temples. Now she could only fixate on what living presences there... ...çade of cashiers, these automatons with a more human gloss, the rudest of logic suggested that she was much more expendable than visible employees an... ..., and without toil could not claim to possess it, this modicum of emotive logic would vanish as quickly as it arose. And before its dispersal, she wo... ...on due to the sorry state of the world, and that there was something more logical to her state of mind than crazed sentiment alone. Nature, which sho... ...when she might see him, if she were to even find the store at all, it was logically nonsensical that his appearance would be equally unfixed in the m... ...you once were in your late twenties shows a significant contribution to a Buddhist temple as a form of spiritual retreat lasting a year; and at the a... ...ontinent, sleeping on park benches, in hostels, living in guest houses of Buddhist Monasteries, having no money but no responsibilities in exchange ... ... to prey on me at an elderly and more fragile juncture? If you were to be logical, instead of letting me affect you so viscerally, me ending my life...

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...ependence Museum; mountain climbing; free English lessons, and visits to his Buddhist temple and congregation. Soon Sang Huin was spending every night... ...ng a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melodies. Toward 6 o'clock, he was still there--and for his exce... ...oral dissertations. Perhaps he or she would find himself discomfited to find logic and honesty in such an eccentric array and wouldn't know what to ma... ...lculations, hypotheses about the thinking of some elusive enemy, and general logic (not that the President Bushes used any of the above). He was relu... ... scoffingly, he was a holy stiff. Now, kitchen-bound, he was no doubt using logic to create a sententious wallowing where the act was more hallowed i... ...more than just diving into sensual experiences when she could no longer stay logical without slipping into a philosophical void: it had been a sociolo... ...riptures or some dogmatic premises that were also claimed as infallible, the Buddhist and the Moslem were threats for an American Christian no less th... ...e vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant at 6:00 a.m. in Laos. They were the making of a more ... ...o revive him with a real personality. Michael was not inclined to befriend a Buddhist this lifelessly innocuous and bereft of money and status so she ...

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...row up in the liveliest abhorrence of my notions. A person with a turn for logic might argue that if God is the Father of all men, and if the child is... ...compels us to ac- cept it from those adults among whom political and theo- logical discussion does as a matter of fact lead to the drawing of knives a... ...s’ and old maids’ children. In dealing with children what is needed is not logic but sense. There is no logical reason why young persons should be all... ...erty the day after they are twenty-one than the day before it. There is no logical reason why I, who strongly object to an adult stand- ing over a boy... ...ners, and practice on his docility to make him learn them. And there is no logical reason why I should do for a child a great many little offices, som... ...socialists, so it should know that there are Christians and Mahometans and Buddhists and Shintoists and so forth, and that they are on the average jus...

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...permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. Edward Conze (tr.), Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1959. © Edward Conze,... ...f Buddhism Since Gautama The Essence Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does H... ...of India had THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION x been popularized in the West, with Buddhist and Hindu doctrines being widely known—even though for the most pa... ...a prior experience of what they refer to. As examples I would point to the Buddhist teachings of nirvana and karma, and the Christian doctrines of the... ...efs in common. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Parsees, and perhaps the bulk of Buddhists align themselves with this viewpoint. Yet others feel religion to... ...on that they should be meaningful, while any attempt to understand them in logical terms is fruitless: When Banzan was walking through a market he ove... ...57. 27. Reps, p. 41 BUDDHISM 29 All of classical Buddhism is founded on a logical paradox: the teaching that there is no soul, no self, no independen... ...y. In this, Christianity shares with Hinduism a passion for definition and logical precision— even its innermost paradoxes are carefully worded and ma... ... a parallel to the Buddhist doctrine of bod- hisattvas, which in turn is a logical outcome of the claim that the Buddha is all-compassionate, so that ...

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...ay-painted the Nazi swastika symbol backwards, which incidentally means the Buddhist symbol for love and compassion! Like I said before, I really ha... ...in order to prepare for the future, an emergency disaster plan of sorts. Her logic appears to make sense, but how the hell is a cr@pload of old newsp...

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... Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local reli... ... of morality that existed in the Christian villages of the past or in the Buddhist communities of this book. Never has so much information and resear... ... before, but today one cannot say that, and such dishonesty is contrary to Buddhist morality. Improvements in the roads and in villagers' community sp... ...ed to adapt to Thai society, they speak the Thai language and also observe Buddhist customs. It is often said that the Chinese immigrants were mostly ... ... calendars, but some have acquired carved teak plaques depicting national (Buddhist) themes and blending in with the style of the carved furniture. A ... ...it became too big. The mother had to avoid behaviour that according to the logic of sorcery might cause 'tightness', 'squeezing' or prolonging; conver... ...th magic qualities have varied in different cultural environments, but the logic of sorcery shares four main elements: earth, wind, fire and water. Th...

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...osophy 453 Further Reading 456 Index 468 Preface Neutrosophic logic grew as an alternative to the existing topics and it represents a ma... ...tency, redundancy and contradiction. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an essential need for an alternative system tha... ...world. Out of this need arose the system of neutrosophy and its connected logic, neutrosophic logic. This new logic, which allows also the concept o... ...te vector using the dynamical system. Appendix 9 deals with Neutrosophic logic. We have included a list of further reading. We deeply acknowledge... ...e every computer is a neural net, because we can view traditional digital logic as constructed from inter connected McCullouch-Pitts neurons. McCull... ...ate these descriptions according to precise and formal rules. Huang Po, a Buddhist teacher of the ninth century observed that “To make use of your m...

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...vations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, Asia and ourselves. Beginning with science and spirituality, the discussion moves from immortality to theology to ...

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...out the words not knowing where they came from, certainly not his formidable, logical mind. Michael Brand left, leaving the room in a p... ...but I’ll be hailed as a great fundraiser." Cardona had to concede to Brand's logic. "Do you think we can control him?" "Can a master matador contr... ... Alex?" she said trembling with emotion. This wasn't the time for Alex to be logical. He just held her in his arms. Alex said quietly to Walter, "... ...bed an Iraqi power plant. 274 J.Cross/Artemis But Soule’ was, however, a logical man, and to some degree he understood why they had done so. Hi... ...ng in their approach," Kyogi added. "They have carefully stayed away from the Buddhists. With world opinion against them on the Tibet issue, they do...

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... Aquatic Apes theory, but to me a number of her conclusions seem far more logical than most of those in the savannah theory. Human babies, unlike... ...es the skills of analysis and matching that are so critical to developing logical, mathematical, and scientific thinking. How phonetic writing came... ...d practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘s rigid logic helped hide the dangerous but vital missing number, which Chapter 11... ...solving knowledge needed to build and govern empires. To me, it‘s only logical that increased access to problem-solving knowledge must have playe... ...ost words in ancient China could be spoken with a single syllable, so it‘s logical that the written language is logographic (i.e., each character rep... ...d priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s reign spawned numerous development...

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...can think our way into our behavior. I would certainly like to believe her, but the evidence points to the fact that we are psychological, not logica... ...ave probably heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logica... ...n imaging is giving us pictures of how the brain will react. Imaging often shows us that the brain will react in ways quite different from the logica... ...te different from the logical rules that we think of as our unique human ability. The limbic system in the brain often takes priority over the logica... ...t then converted also used some free will in so doing?‖ --―As an atheist, I would like to think that we have all followed the lane of logic ... ... or the poverty of the country that reduces the fanaticism found in the religions of the richer West—most Hindus don‘t care what you believe. Buddhi... ...ieve. Buddhists have the same problem with not being irrationally power driven. Has there ever been a war to advance Buddhism? Even though the Buddhi...

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...he same causes which make him a Churchman in Lon don, would have made him a Buddhist or a Confu cian in Pekin. Yet it is as evident in itself as any... ...e internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent in tellects who once adorned the thinking world. The... ...antago nists. It is the fashion of the present time to dispar age negative logic—that which points out weak nesses in theory or errors in practice,... ...tion to slavery. What is called Christian, but should rather be termed theo logical, morality , was not the work of Christ or the Apostles, but is of... ...f those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per secutors, and to say that we may persecute others because w...

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...ts not Baptists, and the Baptists Roman Catholics, and the Roman Catholics Buddhists, and the Buddhists Quakers, and the Quakers Episcopalians, and th... ...im, thus advancing them to first place; whereas in my Admonition I stick logically and consistently to the original position: I place the Interior ... ...nd that together—and that is all that thought is—and out of them built her logical arrangement of infer ences. Edison couldn’t have done it any bette... ...he Genevan court cannot condemn him without manifestly committing a crime. Logic is logic, and by disregarding its laws even the most pious and showy ... ...y province.” Though Bacon did not arm his philosophy with the weap ons of logic, he adorned her profusely with all the richest decorations of rhetori... ...st be held in reverence by everybody else; 3. therefore, by conse quence, logically, and indisputably, whatever is sacred to me must be held in reve...