Search results for: Phenomenology

1. The Truth of Rebirth 5 : An Appropriate Frame
    … In modern philosophy this approach is called phenomenology: talking about the phenomena of experience simply in terms of direct experience, without making reference to any underlying reality that may or may not stand behind that experience. The Buddha was a radical phenomenologist in that he dealt with experience on its own terms. He was a pragmatist in that he adopted this approach because he … 
2. The Truth of Rebirth 1 : Questioning Assumptions
    … By placing rebirth in the context of dependent co-arising, he was presenting it in a phenomenological context—i.e., one that focused on phenomena as they can be directly experienced and that refused to take a stand on whether there is a reality of “things” underlying them. His purpose in taking this sort of position was pragmatic and strategic: By focusing on events … 
3. The Truth of Rebirth 8 : Modern Ironies
    … Even though modern scientific experiments may be more sophisticated than Prince Pāyāsi’s experiments on criminals, the scientists who conduct them are just as wrong-headed in thinking that a phenomenological process—consciousness and mental events as experienced from within—can be captured and measured in physical terms. Although rebirth is often presented as an unscientific view, the material sciences actually have no way … 
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