[Buddha-l] Abhidharma vindicated once again

[JKirkpatrick]

Jamie,

"Of course, after years in India I agree with Dan's thinking that
the reliability of the electric grid is also a consideration :)"

Oh how déjà vu of you :) Ah yes, my years of fighting the Indian
and Bangladeshian electricity grid.............arg.

" So the fact that the lama still had brain activity ..." my
impression of the anecdotal report of the attached wires was that
he was still warm around the heart. Did they also pick up brain
activity? Or am I mixing up dead lamas?

Your contribution about HHDL's insistence on the subtle body and
how that controls his thinking about neural activity was helpful
--I hadn't realised that he clings to the magic of the
supernatural that far in his dealings with regular scientists.
(He still relies on his chief diviner, right?) 
Very well put here:
"His "subtle mind" is the whole gamut of
Buddha-nature/tathagatagarbha/citta-prakrti, and etc. He will
*not* let this go, in spite of his famous willingness to jettison
Buddhist ideas not in accord with scientific findings ("not
finding something is not the same as finding its non-existence").
For him this level of consciousness--subtle mind with *no neural
correlates*--is crucial to his understanding of how nirvana can
come about (we are Buddhas to begin with). Some sort of
consciousness with no neural correlates must also be part of the
rebirth process."

So thanks.
Joanna