BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE

BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE

Buddhism and modern Science

‘I have oftern said, and I shall say again and again, that between Buddhism and modern Science there exist a close intellectual bond’.

– Sir Edwin Arnold

Buddhism copes with Science

If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.

– Albert Einstein

A spiritual Science

Buddhism is, on the contrary, a system of thought, a religion, a spirtual science and a way of life which is reasonable, practical and all embracing. For 2500 years it has satisfied that spiritual science and a way of life, which is reasonable, practical and all embracing. For 2500 years it has satisfied the spirtual needs of nearly one third of mankind. It appeals to the West, insists on self reliance coupled with tolerance for the other ‘s points of view, embraces science, relgion, philosophy, psychology, ethics and art, and points to man alone as the creator of his present life and sole designer of his destiny.

– Christmas Humphreys

Buddhism begins where science ends

Science can give no assurance herein. But Buddhism can meet the atomic Challenge, because the supramundane knowledge of Buddhism begins where science leaves off. And this is clear enough to anyone who has made a study of Buddism. For, through Buddhist Meditation, the atomic constituents making up matter have been seen and felt, and the sorrow, or unsatifactoriness, of their ‘arising and passing away’ (dependant on causes) has made itself with what we call a ‘soul’ or ‘atma’ – the illusion of Sakkayadithi, as it is called in the Buddha’s teaching.

– Egerton C.Baptist, “Supreme Science of the Buddha”

Cause and effect instead of rewards and punishments

According to the Buddha the world is not so constituted. Buddhist believe in a just rational of Kamma that operates automatically and speak in terms of cause and effect instead of rewards and punishments.

– A writer