PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Loving-Kindness, Dalai Lama, Mudita
11 Jan 2018
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Everything is always changing, you never step into the same river twice. Everything interconnected in a web of causes and conditions. We are here today due to the probability of many things, it is a very small chance. Quantum theory: matter does not exist until observed, until we measure them. Ex. the wave function, a particle appearing at a particular place at a particular time, its not there until we measure it. Books written about buddhism and physics: tibetan buddhism and modern physics, zen buddhism and modern physics etc. Not that life is suffering but that it is filled with it. 1: suffering is caused by ignorance of reality, and our attachment and craving, our cravings/ need lead to suffering, not unique to buddhism. It is our desire for things that cause suffering. The 8 fold path: right view: to see and understand things as they really are. Wisdom: right intention: commitment to mental and ethical self-improvement.
