Kat's review
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
by Dalai Lama XIV
dizzingly dizzy making.
just like his teachings.
i have resigned myself to the reality that my mind is just not geared to understand metaphysics.
so i just go and listen to him and bask in his wisdom, hoping to glean a little here and there.
oh, this isn't maitri writing, by the way.
as smart as she is?!?!?
its mimi. here is her account i have created.
isn't that funny though, thinking about maitri reading and writing that.
she can't pee on a toilet, but she reads the metaphysical teachings of tenzin gyatso.
the infinte universe of the toilet...getting flushed into infinity.................
Oh man. I have been bursting out laughing over and over since our Cafe Viva adventure. I'm laughing right now and feel guilty, but seriously, when she started doing that thing with her hand...whooo. We're all being flushed down the big toilet bowl of life aka samsara. That's what I've gleaned.
oh my goodness, me too.
you know she learned that hand move at a samba show i took her too. too crazy.
the trip home was radical.
she cried, screamed, yelled, samba'd all the way to the potty.
Kat's review
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama XIV
Kat's review
rating:
I like the way this book is put together, covering a nice array of topics from HHDL's intrigue with science, his meetings with famous scientists and researchers, his ideas for the direction science should be heading and the last half of the book devoted to the study of consciousness. He writes with clarity and and contagious curiosity. I welcomed his reminders about how the point and intention of science should be to alleviate suffering and help us gain a better understanding of things so that we might be happier. I especially appreciated his detailed analysis of the similarities and differences between Buddhist psychology and western psychology in terms of the separation of emotion from cognition and the difference between our ideas of wholesome/unwholesome emotions vs. positive/negative emotions. My timing in finishing this book coincided nicely with a Neuroscience and Free Will Symposium I went to today where I heard several lecturers arguing for exactly the type of research tha...more
dizzingly dizzy making.
just like his teachings.
i have resigned myself to the reality that my mind is just not geared to understand metaphysics.
so i just go and listen to him and bask in his wisdom, hoping to glean a little here and there.
oh, this isn't maitri writing, by the way.
as smart as she is?!?!?
its mimi. here is her account i have created.
isn't that funny though, thinking about maitri reading and writing that.
she can't pee on a toilet, but she reads the metaphysical teachings of tenzin gyatso.
the infinte universe of the toilet...getting flushed into infinity.................
Oh man. I have been bursting out laughing over and over since our Cafe Viva adventure. I'm laughing right now and feel guilty, but seriously, when she started doing that thing with her hand...whooo. We're all being flushed down the big toilet bowl of life aka samsara. That's what I've gleaned.
oh my goodness, me too.
you know she learned that hand move at a samba show i took her too. too crazy.
the trip home was radical.
she cried, screamed, yelled, samba'd all the way to the potty.