tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088717.post7808769880741227869..comments2023-10-18T02:03:42.145-07:00Comments on LEARNING TO LIVE FREE: A Buddhist Perspective on ScienceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088717.post-14654677409034243622005-11-16T19:35:00.000-08:002005-11-16T19:35:00.000-08:00It is interesting to see this type of news (and sc...It is interesting to see this type of news (and science) becoming more mainstream. I have read two articles recently on this subject, in USA Today and, I believe, Newsweek. Please continue calling our attention to interesting topics you come across, Free.sisunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088717.post-87498100052798040152005-11-18T12:56:00.000-08:002005-11-18T12:56:00.000-08:00Recently, on the radio (NPR actually), I heard a s...Recently, on the radio (NPR actually), I heard a story on some kind of brain research (on meditation or yoga or somesuch), and the reporter said at one point, "These benefits (increased feeling of peace and well-being) have not been proved yet." Isn't this reportorial remark a kind of nonsense? If a person says that, for example, they practice yoga and they feel much more at peace and alive as a result, I think there is a reasonable presumption that their testimony is true. Of course, it is possible that the change is coincidental with their new practice but is really caused by some kind of change in their drinking water or some other undiscovered cause, but the likelihood of the person being mistaken about the cause of the change is small.<br>What the reporter <i>really</i> meant to say was that "These benefits haven't been <b>measured</b> yet." This goes back to the presumption, which is only a presumption and is, in fact, quite false, that only that which can be measured, reported on, and reproduced by independent researchers really exists. By this standard, most of our experience--almost all of our lives--is an illusion.oven mitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10367609027480596437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088717.post-12188313131073072432005-11-18T21:05:00.000-08:002005-11-18T21:05:00.000-08:00Dear Oven Mitt,Ah, but perhaps it is only an illus...Dear Oven Mitt,<br><br>Ah, but perhaps it is only an illusion! The more I read, the more I wonder....sisunoreply@blogger.com