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(wikipedia) | Philip Kotler (1931- ) “My approach is influenced by Zen. Zen emphasizes learning by means of meditation and direct, intuitive insights. The thoughts in this book are a result of my meditations on these fundamental marketing concepts and principles.” (Marketing Insights from A to Z) |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) “One thing that Buddhism teaches you is that every moment is an opportunity to change. ”
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Stephan R Covey (1932- ) About 6th habit (it is conclusion of this book) “Buddhism calls this “the middle way.” Middle in this sense does not mean compromise; it means higher, like the apex of the triangle.” (Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pepole) |
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Uma Thurman (1970-) “Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world.” |
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) “If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.” |
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Niels. Bohr (1885-1962) “For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory . . . [we must turn to those kinds of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like the Buddha and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence.” (Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge) |
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Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) “The great scientific contribution in theoretical physics that has come from Japan since the last war may be an indication of a certain relationship between philosophical ideas in the tradition of the Far East and the philosophicalSchrodinge” (Physics and Philosophy) |
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) “The general notions about human understanding… which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.'” (Science and the Common Understanding) |
Paul Ekman (1934-) “Buddhist conceptions and practices that deal with emotional life make three very distinct contributions to psychology. Conceptually, they raise issues that have been ignored by many psychologists, calling on the field to make more finely nuanced distinctions in thinking about emotional experience. Methodologically, they offer practices that could help individuals report on their own internal experiences, and such practices might thereby provide crucial data that is much more detailed and comprehensive than that gathered by the techniques psychologists now use to study subjective emotional experience. Finally, Buddhist practices themselves offer a therapy, not just for the disturbed, but for all who seek to improve the quality of their lives. We hope what we have reported will serve to spark the interest of psychologists to learn more about this tradition.” (Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives on Emotions and Well-Being) |
John R. O’neil He is president of the California School of Professional Psychology and a member of the boards of the Social Venture Network and California Leadership. He advises major corporations and CEOs on planning, leadership, and organizational health. “Perhaps more important was the fact that “real men” who had sneered at meditation found out that their hard-as-nails Japanese competitors used it regularly. So more and more persons in mainstream careers began to study Buddhism and other Eastern teachings and to practice meditation, and weekend retreats incorporationg meditation gew in popularity.” (Paradox of Success) |
Jeffrey M. Schwartz He is a professor of the UCLA.
“We talked, too, about how both quantum physics and classical Buddhism give volition and choice a central role in the workings of the cosmos….According to the Buddha’s timeless law of Dependent Origination, it is because of volition that consciousness keeps arising throughout endless world cycles. And it is certainly true that in Buddhist philosophy one’s choice is not determined by anything in the physical, material world…. So in both quantum physics and Buddhist philosophy, volition plays a special, unique role.” |
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) “The history of the world travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of history, Asia is the beginning.” (The Philosophy of History) |
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James Allen (1864-1912) “Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless. beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.” (As a man thinkth) |
Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) “In Buddha and Buddhism there flows a source which we Westerners have not tapped, and consequently there is a limit to our understanding. We must first of all acknowledgh that Buddhism is far removed from us and renounce all quick, easy ways of coming closer to it. To participate in the essence of Buddha’s truth, we should have to cease to be what we are.” “The fact that Buddha’s life was possible and that Buddhist life has been a reality in various parts of Asia down to our own dsay — this is a great and important fact.” “It points to the questionable essence of man.” (THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS) |
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) “Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity. Buddhism is the only genuinely positive religion to be encountered in history.” (THE ANTICHRIST) |
Daniel Pink “Science and Buddhism are bery similar,”… “because they are exploring the nature of reality, and both have the goal to lessen the suffering of mankind.” (A WHOLE NEW MIND) |
Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) “The Buddha was a very skillful psychologist, and he is in a way the first psychotherapist in history, a man of tremendous understanding of the wiles and the deviousness of the human mind.” (The Philosophies of Asia) |
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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) “fragrant myth of Gotama, the Buddha, the wise man of the family of Sakya. He possessed, so the believers said, the highest enlightenment, he remembered his previous lives, he had reached the nirvana and never returned into the cycle, was never again submerged in the murky river of physical forms. Many wonderful and unbelievable things were reported of him, he had performed miracles, had overcome the devil, had spoken to the gods. But his enemies and disbelievers said, this Gotama was a vain seducer, he would spent his days in luxury, scorned the offerings, was without learning, and knew neither exercises nor self-castigation.” (Siddhartha) |
Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828-1910) “To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible – we must free ourselves from life, from all possible life,” says Buddha. And what these strong minds said has been said and thought and felt by millions upon millions of people like them. And I have thought it and felt it. (A CONFESSION) |
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (1917-) “Of the faiths that had existed before the coming of the Overlords, only a forn~ of purified Buddhism-perhaps the most austere of all religions-still survived.” (Childhood’s End) Buddhism will spread to the West. |
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Arnold J Toynbee (1889-1975) “The coming of Buddhism to the West may well prove to be the most important event of the Twentieth Century.” |
13 ខែតុលា 2009 § មតិ 2
>(BBC) Did Jesus learn what he knew from India? Where was Jesus and what was he doing from ages 12-30? What happened to him after his Crucifixion? Why does the Bible leave out this important information?
9 ខែឧសភា 2009 § បញ្ចេញមតិ
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Buddha’s Teaching Can Help Global Peace – UN Sec Gen
Courtesy The Buddhist Channel May 8, 2009
<< Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General
United Nations, New York — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his message delivered to the world communities on Wednesday that the Buddha’s teaching could help the world become peaceful.
“All of us can learn from the Buddha’s spirit of compassion. His timeless teachings can help us to navigate the many global problems we face today,” said Ban Ki-moon in his message.
His message came ahead of the Buddha’s birthday, traditionally known as Vesak or Visakah, a full-moon which this year fell on 9 May, 2009.
Vesak is the name of the month of the Buddha’s birth in the Indian lunar calendar. Buddhist communities around the world celebrate the full-moon day with great reverence and piety as the day synchronized the birth, enlightenment, and passing of the Buddha.
“The need for global solidarity may seem like a modern concept, but it is not. More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha taught that nothing exists in isolation, and that all phenomena are interdependent. Just as profoundly, he taught that we cannot be happy as long as others suffer, and that when we do reach out, we discover the best in ourselves,” he added.
He also urged every individual to resolve to help people who are suffering, in order to secure a better future for all, in his message marking Vesak.
9 ខែមេសា 2009 § បញ្ចេញមតិ
>Albert Einstein
(German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity” A widely cited, but apparently spurious quotation attributed to Albert Einstein
If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. -Albert Einstein
A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compasion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
-Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. -Albert Einstein
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