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The European structure of thinking has led us into an ecologic and economic crisis that is going to destroy nature and social structures. In this situation the thinking structure of Buddhism is very interesting and helpful because it reveals the fundamental presuppositions of European thinking as fictions: the separation between
The frame of the mind is the condition of the world.
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The Eightfold Path is not normative ethics.
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Buddhism grounds on instability, therefore, we cannot assume that something remains eternally unchanged.
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Buddhism Science and Medicine libri nigri 50
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Wallner / Klünger (eds.) - Buddhism
consciousness and world, theory and practice, the real and the sense (meaning), the transitory and the eternal.
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Friedrich G. Wallner and Gerhard Klünger (eds.) Buddhism – Science and Medicine
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Buddhism – Science and Medicine Interpretations, Applications, and Misuse Edited by Friedrich G. Wallner and Gerhard Klünger
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Table of Contents Friedrich Wallner und Michael Franck (University of Vienna) How Buddhist Philosophy can help us to identify the cultural sources of our global crises
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Somparn Promta (Department of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University) Enlightened Life Integration of Buddha’s Teaching and Biology
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Sumalee Mahanarongchai (Thammasat University, Bangkok) The Mind’s Facticity and the Rise of Dise