Hvorfor ser det ut til at sannheter alltid kommer i form av paradokser?

Avery Solomon er vitenskapsmann og matematiker. Han har besøkt Paramita to ganger tidligere og fortryllet oss med sin dype forståelse av kvantefysikk og sin engasjerende framstilling.

Avery Solomon

På dette seminaret vil Avery Solomon bl.a. gi oss en moderne vinkling på buddhismens dype innsikter; til begreper som shunyata, visdom, de to sannheter, madhyamika-filosofien osv. Det blir også et sideblikk på Ken Wilbers integralfilosofi og andre filosofiske retninger.

Avery Solomon underviser på engelsk.

Reality and appearance...
 
Modern science and spirituality combine with ancient wisdom to give us a new perspective on appearance and reality.  Through discussion, meditation, and shared experiences we will look more clearly into what is real and what is not.  We will dissolve old paradigms of reality and suggest new ones, more fitting an expanded view of the individual and humanity as a whole. More peace and contentment. Less selfish.  More caring.
 
SATURDAY:  A local view of reality and appearance: inquiry into how we know what we know.
On saturday: the local view: starts where we are with an inquiry into perception and experience. We begin by questioning our old beliefs: the role of the individual mind and its misconceptions in all of scientific and spiritual inquiry.  We explore and explain concepts such as karma, inter-being, no thing, dependent arising, consciousness, knowing, causality, and the "middle way" of Buddhism and Platonism.  Quantum Physics - like Buddhist philosophy - can shift our primitive views of reality, show us that experience is not what it seems.  For example, Science gives a new angle on the shunyata, interdependence and causality: ideas that can help our understanding to expand and open us for a deeper and more experiential knowing of reality.
 
More importantly, we recognize that �What you know depends on how you come to know it.� The power of know: cognitive study is as profound as Quantum mechanics, since all our knowledge of QM depends on experience.  How do we know what we know, and how do we know it is true, and how we create it, and who it is that creates it? Changing our old view of reality means changing how we view reality.  A double standpoint is suggested to help us understand: relative and ultimate. Relative truths and the truth of relativity in science and spirit, we could say.
 
How would this new understanding change our lives if we really took it in and applied it?
 
SUNDAY:  A global view of reality and appearance: suggested by modern perspectives on ancient wisdom.   
A big picture, exploring relation of universe to four aspects of reality.  "evolutionary journey of the soul: you are becoming the wisdom of the cosmos."  The unit of life/mind as human and divine.

The middle way shows that although the universe is not real, still it is an appearance.  What is the cosmos an appearance OF? Once we shift from our old materialist perspective, wider and deeper dimensions of cosmology and reality emerge which are open, expansive and intelligent.  On this second day, we explore these dimensions with reading, discussion and meditations.  Max Planck, for example, founder of quantum mechanics, suggested that physics (1944) points to a background matrix of universal intelligence.  We get inspiration from modern visionaries like Ken Wilber, Paul Brunton, Nisargadatta, Tarthang Tulku and Anthony Damiani.  A beautiful synthetic paradigm of the reality/appearance emerges through two-fold, three-fold and four-fold perspectives.  These views suggest our place in the cosmos as unit of life/mind which is becoming the wisdom of the cosmos: a seed of Buddha grows into Buddha.

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Lærer: Avery Solomon

Sted: Paramita meditasjonssenter

Starter: 11.09.2010 - 10:00       Avsluttes: 12.09.2010 - 17:00      Varighet: En helg

Krav til detagelse: For alle interesserte

Pris: Kr 1000

Merknader: Kr 550,- for enkeltdager.

Publisert/sist endret: 14 00:00:00.08.2010