Buddhism
TagAnimal Rights (1) – October 2000
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Question: “It seems to me that Process Ethics would affirm the Buddhist Precept about ‘Not Harming’ unless absolutely necessary. On the subject of ‘Harming Animals’, does this mean God wants all Compound Individuals (and other entities capable of ‘high-grade’ prehensions) to be..
Whitehead and Buddhism – August 2006
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Question: It is well known that process thought affirms along with Buddhism the absence of an intrinsic existence—that is no underlying substance behind any activity. But how then does it maintain this position and at the time affirm the Jamesian account of intrinsic value? Ple..
Process Theology & Buddhism – February 2011
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Question: I have recently discovered Process Theology and I find it very challenging, as it seems to solve some of the contradictions inherent in Buddhism. As far as I can understand, unlike in Buddhism, we do not owe our existence to past human existences and our mental life i..
World-Oriented Mysticism – June 2013
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Question: How can mystical experiences direct us to the world and its needs?
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Publication Month: June 2013
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The question is well formulated. Mystical experiences do not always have this effect. So..
L’Chaim: To Life and Impermanence
by Dr. Arlette Poland
There is a continuousness about existence that Whitehead recognized. One event, life, thing even memory flows into another. First there is this and then there is that. If there is no this, as we say in Buddhism, then there is no that. Simple. Not easy – but simple, yes. S..
CONCRESENCE AS INCLUSION IN EVERY BECOMING MOMENT
by Dr. Arlette Poland
Whitehead coined the term conscresence. It is described variously as the intake and decision making in the becoming event or experience. John Cobb, Jr. describes it as the “process of becoming ‘concrete’.” (Cobb, 2008, 59) The process takes place in time and is experienced..
FACTS AND FALLACIES
By Arlette Poland
Years ago, as an attorney, I had to use ‘facts’ in evidence. Now, as a Professor and Whiteheadian philosopher, I teach that we humans, in our drive to give meaning to things, tend to make our meanings too concrete. We decide what a ‘fact’ is with certainty and then proceed as ..