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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ela_eluwa120" data-source="post: 6441849" data-attributes="member: 193664">However, she was not quite right. The mind can see everything that one's eye can see, and it can also imagine so much more. It can also hear, smell, taste and touch, as well as think. In fact, everything that can be known can fit into the mind. Therefore, the mind must be the biggest thing in the world. Science's mistake is obvious now. The mind is not in the brain, nor in the body.The brain, the body and the rest of the world, are in the mind!    [FONT=&quot]Mind is the sixth sense in Buddhism[/FONT], it is that which encompasses the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, and transcends them with its own domain. It corresponds loosely to Aristotle's "common sense" that is distinct from the five senses. Indeed, ancient Greek philosophy, from where science is said to have its origins, taught six senses just like Buddhism. Somewhere along the historical journey of European thinking, they lost their mind! Or, as Aristotle would put it, they somehow discarded their "common sense"! And thus we got science. We got materialism without any heart. One can accurately say that Buddhism is science that has kept its heart, and which hasn't lost its mind!  [FONT=&quot]Thus, Buddhism is not a belief system. [/FONT]  It is a science founded on objective observation, (i.e. meditation, ever careful not to disturb the reality through imposing artificial measurements), and it is evidently repeatable. People have been re-creating the experimental conditions, known as establishing the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, for over twenty-six centuries now, much longer than science. And those renowned Professors of Meditation, the male and female Arahants, have all arrived at the same conclusion as the Buddha. They verified the timeless Law of Dhamma,known as Buddhism otherwise . So Buddhism is the only real science,I'm happy to say that I'm still a scientist at heart, only a much better scientist than I ever could have been at Cambridge.  Ajahn Brahmavamso</blockquote>

Verification: Hathara warak wissa keeyada? (Hathara wadi karanna 20)

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