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| 2008/02/10 12:14:35瀏覽472｜回應0｜推薦2 | |
| Dr. Deepak Chopra is a frequent guest on National Public Radio. I listened to him tonight on KQED, and thought about the relationship between his ideas and Buddhism. His ideas are in line with the teachings of Vedanta（吠檀多）and the Bhagavad Gita（薄伽梵歌）, thus in the lineage of Vedas and Yoga in India, but if you are familiar with Mahayana's teaching of Buddha Nature (Tathagatha-garbha), then you'll think he is only calling Buddha Nature as universal consciousness or soul, and from the activity of universal consciousness arises feeling, imagination, desire, and action. The universal consciousness has no cause, and is both transcendent and imminent. Transcendent because universal consciousness exists outside of time, and thus permanent; but also expresses itself in time(and space), thus imminent and creates all the phenomenon we experience. Liberation is possible when we recognize and come back to this universal consciousness. Throw in a quantum theory of consciousness, and his theory is quite sophisticated. If you think you have a good grasp of Mind-only(Yogacara) school or Middle Way(Madhyamika) school of Buddhism, it's a good exercise to learn Deepak Chopra's ideas and see if you can find serious flaws in them. You may learn a few things along the way. The 62 wrong views enumerated in The Long Discourses of the Buddha or Yogacarabhumi can be quite sophisticated, and don't necessarily sound absurd when articulated well by their proponents. Dr. Deepak Chopra is a good example. If you can't distinguish between dharma and Dr. Deepak Chopra, reflect on this: why did the Buddha say 'there is no self in any dharma(dharma means existence or phenomena)' as the second Seal (mark) of Buddha-dharma? |
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