Science and Buddhism

How do we avoid fooling ourselves? We’ll consider some similarities between the methodology of the sciences and the Buddha’s understanding of dharma and its practice.

We usually think that the route to true happiness is getting what we want. Yet dissatisfaction persists! We'll take a look at this frustrating conundrum, and point the way towards a solution.

The Golden Rule plays a key role in early Buddhist ethics. I'll show where we find it, as well as how the Buddha seems to have derived it from a principle of psychology. I'll also consider the question of why the rule is expressed…

One aim of Buddhism is to help us accept our mortality and so come to terms with death. We'll look at how his mortality was the Buddha's concern when he began his search, how coming to terms with mortality functions in various forms of…

Is AI sentient? Could it be made sentient? I'll consider those questions from the perspective of early Buddhist psychology. First I'll consider some claims about why current AI chatbots are clearly not sentient and then I'll turn to using…

Many of us have doubts about how to act or proceed in difficult circumstances such as these. We'll see how the Buddha recommended we find the right way forward, and how his suggestions can be updated to take account of the information…

The unconscious plays a key role in recent theories of psychology. Does it have any counterpart in Buddhism? Well ... sort of. We will look at the suttas of early Buddhism in particular, at one way we may be able to recover some ideas…