NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dukkha, Cognitive Distortion, Etiology
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New232y1 lecture 3 draft notes may 20th. Religion as devotional practice is being replaced by meditative, intellectual approach by western (=practical, analytical). Without converting into buddhism as your religion, you can learn from buddhism, how it impact our mind and its development. We all suffer because we are trapped by our delusion of reality. Science dismisses subjectivity of the mind and gives value to objectivity of the mind. (vs. Buddhism describes ways of knowing that may have not developed in the west. Buddhism= intuitive: natural, primary, your immediate experience by things (direct) Science= conceptual: naming things (filtered out by concept, secondary, we tend to rely on this (secondary conceptual things) by language, expectation of norms. Everything is results that is consequences of chains of causes. Also, every understanding is influenced by your mind. Buddhist psychology approach is scientific because it can be proved by repeated approach and same results.
