The heart for instance is a lump of matter.Ajahn Maha Boowa wrote: The brain, for instance, is a lump of matter.
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Brain vs mind?
Re: Brain vs mind?
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Re: Brain vs mind?
How coherent is Buddha-dharma if there is only one aggregate: form?
And no immaterial jhanas?
And no karma?
And how could one possibly define nibbana in materialist terms? The cessation of brain activity = nibbana?? That is a dire proposition.
So it's a pretty easy answer: it's not coherent at all.
There were materialists in the Buddha's time too - the Carvakas - and they were understood (by the Buddhists) to be about as heretical as one can get to Buddha-dharma.
In today's age, I would agree that there are some nuanced and sophisticated and well founded versions of materialism......but all of them are contrary to the buddha-dharma: the very logic of buddha-dharma is 'a mind that extracts itself from entanglements with form.'
And no immaterial jhanas?
And no karma?
And how could one possibly define nibbana in materialist terms? The cessation of brain activity = nibbana?? That is a dire proposition.
So it's a pretty easy answer: it's not coherent at all.
There were materialists in the Buddha's time too - the Carvakas - and they were understood (by the Buddhists) to be about as heretical as one can get to Buddha-dharma.
In today's age, I would agree that there are some nuanced and sophisticated and well founded versions of materialism......but all of them are contrary to the buddha-dharma: the very logic of buddha-dharma is 'a mind that extracts itself from entanglements with form.'