Searching for Truth: Accel­er­at­ors, Tele­scopes and Buddhism

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/23291371?color=ffffff&title=0&byline=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> What is the nature of Reality? And can the answer give mean­ing to human exist­ence? The sci­ences have made spec­tac­u­lar advances in our under­stand­ing of the uni­verse and the phe­nom­ena within it, but is there a broader real­ity that can sat­isfy the deep­est long­ings of the human heart for mean­ing and purpose? Buddhism answers with a vig­or­ous Yes. In this talk Mahasraddha con­siders the cur­rent sci­entific views of real­ity but warns of the dangers of adapt­ing a purely sci­entific view. He also con­siders the rela­tion­ship between the Buddhist and sci­entific views of real­ity and how align­ing ourselves with the former can provide answers to the fun­da­mental ques­tions of mean­ing and pur­pose to human existence. Talk given at Manchester Buddhist Centre on 30th April 2011 as part of a series of free public talks on Buddhism and contemporary issues The post Searching for Truth: Accel­er­at­ors, Tele­scopes and Buddhism appeared first on Manchester Buddhist Centre.