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oDhamma and Science – Introduction

oSubsection: Origin of Life

▪Origin of Life – There is No Traceable Origin

▪Human Life – A Mental Base (Gandhabba) and a Material Base (Cell)

▪Clarification of “Mental Body” and “Physical Body” – Different Types of “Kāya”

▪Four Types of Births in Buddhism

▪Buddhist Explanations of Conception, Abortion, and Contraception

▪Cloning and Gandhabba

▪Living Cell – How Did the First Cell Come to Existence?

▪Views on Life

•Views on Life – Wrong View of Materialism

•Wrong View of Creationism (and Eternal Future Life) – Part 1

•Wrong View of Creationism (and Eternal Future Life) – Part 2

•Worldview of the Buddha

▪Buddhist Worldview – Introduction

▪Contact Between Āyatana Leads to Vipāka Viññāṇa

▪How Do Sense Faculties Become Internal Āyatana?

▪The Framework of Buddha Dhamma

▪The Suffering (Dukkha) in the First Noble Truth

▪Dangers of Ten Types of Wrong Views and Four Possible Paths

▪Sammā Diṭṭhī – Only One Leads to the Noble Path

▪Fear of Nibbāna (Enlightenment)

▪Ghost 1990 Movie – Good Depiction of Gandhabba Concept

▪Mental Body Versus the Physical Body

▪Sensory Experience - Basis of Buddha’s Worldview [Actual location at Is There A “Self”? section]

•Citta – Basis of Our Experience and Actions

•Vipāka Vedanā and “Samphassa jā Vedanā” in a Sensory Event

•Kāma Guṇa – Origin of Attachment (Taṇhā)

•Vision Is a Series of “Snapshots” – Movie Analogy

•Do I Have “A Mind” That Is Fixed and “Mine”?

•Chachakka Sutta – Six Types of Vipāka Viññāṇa

•Sakkāya Diṭṭhi in Terms of Attā or “Self” or “Ātma”

•An Apparent “Self” Is Involved in Kamma Generation

▪Paṭicca Samuppāda – Not “Self” or “No-Self”

oTaṇhā – The Origin of Suffering

oPaṭicca Samuppāda – A “Self” Exists Due to Avijjā

oKamma, Saṅkhāra, and Abhisaṅkhāra

oVacī Saṅkhāra – Saṅkappa (Conscious Thoughts) and Vācā (Speech)

oTaṇhā Paccayā Upādāna – Critical Step in Paṭicca Samuppāda

oMoha/Avijjā and Vipāka Viññāṇa/Kamma Viññāṇa

oIcchā (Cravings) Lead to Upādāna and to Eventual Suffering

oDhammā, Kamma, Saṅkhāra, Mind – Critical Connections

oPaṭicca Samuppāda – From Mind to Matter

oKamma and Paṭicca Samuppāda

▪Kamma and Paṭicca Samuppāda – Introduction

▪Kāma Assāda – A Root Cause of Suffering

▪Gati (Habits/Character) Determine Births – Saṁsappanīya Sutta

oSubsection: Good Explanations – Key to Weed Out Bad Versions of Dhamma

▪Consciousness and the Brain

▪Matter Creates Mind or Mind Creates Matter?

oSubsection: Consciousness – A Dhamma Perspective

▪What is Consciousness?

▪Consciousness Dependence on Number of Dimensions

▪Six Kinds of Consciousness in Our 3-D World

▪Expanding “Consciousness” by Using Technology

▪Expanding “Consciousness” by Purifying the Mind

▪What is Mind? How do we Experience the Outside World?

oSubsection: Consistencies with Science

▪Second Law of Thermodynamics is Part of Anicca!

▪Quantum Entanglement – We Are All Connected

▪Infinity – How Big Is It?

▪Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem

▪Truine Brain: How the Mind Rewires the Brain via Meditation/Habits

▪How Habits are Formed and Broken – A Scientific View

oSubsection: Inconsistencies with Science

▪Neuroscience says there is no Free Will? – That is a Misinterpretation!

▪The Double Slit Experiment – Correlation between Mind and Matter?

▪Vision (Cakkhu Viññāṇa) is Not Just Seeing