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Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting introduction into Buddhism for the Westerner who has an affinity for science and empiricism, and a penchant for skepticism.
This book is a conversation between the two!
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What is success, truly? Just remain in awareness of the present moment, free of any conscious thoughts. In many cases, they seem to arrive at the same destination, but via different paths. Book of Mirdad Mikhail Naimy.
I just didn’t find it all that engaging. The subsequent chapters talk about the reason why Philosophy in the west failed to provide solace to the people post 18th century since the role of the ethics was relegated to the field of politics which predominantly consisted of theorising and implementing utopias while the role of knowledge was relegated to science.
On the other hand, my personal experience of the effectiveness of meditation at self-transformation allowed me to understand more deeply what Mattheiu said. As the father begins to press with some of the most challenging questions regarding Buddhism, especially about the metaphysical aspects of the practice, his son prevaricates the questions and returns to seemingly the same suggestions time and time again.
A very interesting dialogue.
The relationship between father and son is always complex. I think that Buddhism is an interesting tradition that will have a growing influence on the Western thought. He took a handful of snow and concluded that white was ‘cold’. It lacks beauty mtathieu poetry.
What truly matters is to cultivate your mind through meditation. Feb 15, Manu rated it really liked it Shelves: But like I mentioned earlier, these are filoosofo results of subjective experiences that one has to strive towards. I found the chapters on topics in philosophy of mind fascinating, but they were pretty jargon-heavy and might not be useful or interesting to someone without a cog-sci background.
Way of the Hermes Clement Salaman. This is also connected to my key disappointment that I have still like JF not been convinced on the metaphysical aspects of Buddhism – chiefly reincarnation, and seeing consciousness as mattnieu flow that can be accessed by eel entity even after what we call death.
The other blind man was told that white was the color of swans. Feb 27, Shashank Amarnath rated it really liked it.
El Monje y El Filosofo
Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Filodofo — not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in filosfo practice under the guidance of its greatest livin Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity.
A biologist turned Buddhist in conversation with a philosopher about the meaning of life. Their conversation is not merely abstract: This book is the first Western introductory Buddhism book I’ve ricrad that speaks clearly to me. What constitutes consciousness and how it is formed shaping our behaviour in response to the outer world? It is a respectful yet powerful tension between old and new, experience and novelty, obedience and autonomy, belief and curiosity, advice and adventure.
Interesting discussion about Buddhism. The son explains certain aspect of Buddhism, which the father doesn’t believe so answers back with some very well-thought questions, filosoco the son explains back using beautiful metaphors and deep explanations about the matter. How much is our theory blinded by this illusion? Feb 05, Jon Gauthier rated it really liked it Shelves: This is also connected to my key disappointment that I have still like JF not been convinced on the metaphysical aspects of Buddhism — chiefly reincarnation, and seeing consciousness as a flow that mstthieu be accessed by an entity even after what we call matthieu ricard el monje y el filosofo.
Dec 10, Gautham Shenoy rated it it was amazing. A good book nonetheless.
The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life by Jean-François Revel
Certainly the ability to jump that high is extraordinary, and greatly exceeds the ability of any untrained athlete. Lists with This Book. Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for filosofoo challenges to both Matthueu and Christianity.
They also deal with detachment, the concept of it as they discuss various issues. He went on to study with Khysntse Rinpoche for 12 more years and was ordained as a monk in One of the important take-aways from these chaptersmone me was the realisation of the fact that to live a good life, one needs to see things as they are and not in the way we want them to see. Ricard is a genius biologist turned Buddhist Monk and his father is the brilliant French philosopher, Jean-Francois Revel.
The scope of the discussion includes scientific research, metaphysics, politics, psychoanalysis, and obviously religion as both share their perspectives on these topics.
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In the initial few chapters, the question on whether Buddhism is a religion or mind-science or a way of life has been addressed. I feel it could be shortened, as there was quite a lot of redundancy in the son’s questions wl it lost it’s intrigue when the son returned to similar answers many times over. Wel vraag ik me bij de filosoof af in hoeverre hij op de hoogte is van het huidige discours: Another thing that bothers me is that Matthieu Ricard always poses as the happy sage.
Trivia About The Monk and the All in all, it’s a decent read. After reading it, I am shocked to find out ricarc not only does it provide a comparison, but also that my original concept in Buddhism is totally wrong.
Is Buddhism a religion, per se, as it emphasizes more on values like compassion, love and kindness?