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Writer, UBC Philosophy, Assoc Member Asian Studies & Psych Depts. Married to @beckettodd

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    1. Buddhadharma‏ @buddhadharma Feb 2
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      "When Buddhist modernists say that Buddhism isn’t a religion and try to use science to justify Buddhism, that’s an instance of misunderstanding what religion is and what science is." @evantthompsonhttps://buff.ly/38Xyr2o 

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    2. graham lock‏ @grahamlock7 Feb 2
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      Agree. But I can’t think of a contemporary Buddhist teacher - modernist or not- who actually justifies Buddhism through science as opposed to just claiming that Buddhism and science are compatible. Wonder who he is thinking of.

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    3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 3
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      Virtually every Western teacher I've encountered uses science to support Buddhism. As for compatibility, this claim is no more plausible to me than claiming Christianity or Hinduism or Islam is compatible with science

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    4. graham lock‏ @grahamlock7 Feb 4
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      When neuroscientists etc. say there is no evidence for an “I” essence underlying our mental processes, Isnt it ok to say that this is compatible with understanding of “anatta” but not with the usual understandings of the soul in Christianity etc? This isn’t to justify.

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    5. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 4
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      Yes, if we just take those ideas out of context. Anatman has both descriptive and normative aspects. Descriptive: anatman is the denial that there is a permanent & unchanging self or soul [1]

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      Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 4
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      Normative: one should dis-identify with everything making up the body and mind and treat it all as not-self. The normative aspect is ethical/religious/soteriological, not scientific [2]

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        2. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 4
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          Also, the Buddha insisted on both anatman and karma. Karma isn’t compatible with science. If we drop karma and just have anatman, that’s much closer to materialism than Buddhism [3]

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          So your statement is like saying that when scientists say the universe is law-governed and intelligible in the language of mathematics, isn’t it OK to say this is compatible with the Christian vision of the cosmos? Yes, but that’s to overlook the other incompatibilities [4]

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