[Buddha-l] The scientific project and the Buddhist project

[Jo]

I agree with your views--well-said.
JK

On Behalf Of Catalina
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 1:22 AM


my 2 cents on this:
I'm a scientist, have always been, by that I mean "my way of thinking is
pretty much the way scientists do science" since I remember, I didn't learn
that at the University or school. I studied Science as well and have worked
as a researcher. 
I got interested in Buddhism at the beginning because I found "you have to
experience things by yourself to actually believe them" very "scientist" as
a no dogma way. 
To relate mind "transformation" -or whatever  people want to call that- to
meditation or talk about how quantum physics and Buddhism relate is not an
interesting subject to me, may distract me a little as intellectual small
talking but not more.

Some time ago -while cooking- I asked another scientist what she believed
in...she looked at me as I was crazy and said: -nothing of course! I'm a
scientist!!!
that made me laugh....a little....I'm a scientist as well- I said- and I
believe in plenty of different things, intuition and asking yourself
questions is the basis of a scientific approach- and also scientists know
that  plenty of things "may be" true until you prove the opposite anyway and
that whatever it is as it is is already that way independently of what we
think about it.

Cheers,
Catalina
(cloudy in France this morning, I had to light the lamps even if it is 11 in
the morning)