Hi...I found some Dhammic implications in this article and thought it might interest some here...
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Going mental...
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Re: Going mental...
appicchato wrote:Hi...I found some Dhammic implications in this article and thought it might interest some here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/educa ... ult-t.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I firmly disagree with this and so will hide my head in the snowadult learners should “jiggle their synapses a bit” by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, says Dr. Taylor, who is 66.
but seriously Thank-you Bhante!
P.S., not going mental! already mental
Blog, Suttas, Aj Chah, Facebook.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
Re: Going mental...
Thanks!
AdavitaJ
The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Li Bai
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. Li Bai
Re: Going mental...
Thank you Bhante!
It confirmed what I had suspected. I'll be passing on the article to my wife, and educational psychologist.
metta
Ben
It confirmed what I had suspected. I'll be passing on the article to my wife, and educational psychologist.
metta
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Going mental...
Well at 53 it looks like there's hope for me yet, good article
with metta
Colin
with metta
Colin