The Buddhist tradition of Samatha: Methods for refining and examining consciousness

Author: Wallace B.A.

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 6, Numbers 2-3, 1999 , pp. 175-187(13)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

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Abstract:

[opening paragraph]: Buddhist inquiry into the natural world proceeds from a radically different point of departure than western science, and its methods differ correspondingly. Early pioneers of the scientific revolution, including Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, expressed an initial interest in the nature of physical objects most far removed from human subjectivity: such issues as the relative motions of the sun and earth, the surface of the moon, and the revolutions of the planets. And a central principle of scientific naturalism is the pure objectification of the natural world, free of any contamination of subjectivity. This principle of objectivism demands that science deals with empirical facts testable by empirical methods entailing testability by third-person means; and such facts must, therefore, be public rather than private, which is to say, they must be accessible to more than one observer.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.:

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