Der Geist ist nicht in der Welt, die Welt ist im Geist
Hallo MultiVista,
Vielleicht taeusche ich mich, doch mir ist bisher in dieser
viel diskutierten Debatte
noch nicht aufgefallen, dass wenn ein Vertreter des „Geistes
als Ursprung alles Seins“ argumentiert, noch fehlt, dass wenn
zuerst der Geist „da“ war, wie DANN die Materie entstanden
sein koennte.
Nun, ich kenne einen solchen Vertreter. Dieser Artikel wird Dir vielleicht gefallen, er gibt dem Thema eine recht unkonventionelle Wendung:
http://newbuddhist.com/discussion/1128/buddhism-the-…
Ich finde den gesamten Artikel spannend und lesenswert. Wenn Du es eilig hast, hier ein Ausschnitt daraus betreffs Deiner Frage:
(…) _At a recent seminar on Science and Religion, at which I was a speaker, a Catholic in the audience bravely announced that whenever she looks through a telescope at the stars, she feels uncomfortable because her religion is threatened.
I commented that whenever a scientist looks the other way round through a telescope, to observe the one who is watching, then they feel uncomfortable because their science is threatened by what is doing the seeing! So what is doing the seeing, what is this mind that eludes modern science? A Grade-One teacher once asked her class „What is the biggest thing in the world?“ One little girl answered „My daddy“. A little boy said „An elephant“, since he’d recently been to the zoo. Another girl suggested „A mountain“.
The six-year-old daughter of a close friend of mine replied, „My eye is the biggest thing in the world“! The class stopped.
Even the teacher didn’t understand her answer. So the little philosopher explained „Well, my eye can see her daddy, an elephant, and a mountain too. It can also see so much else. If all of that can fit into my eye, then my eye must be the biggest thing in the world“! Brilliant.
Science’s mistake
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!
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!_
Beste Grüße,
Irmfried