Template: Psychology, Week 2 Discussion

 “This is what we need to investigate and be absolutely clear about. Mind is mere experience—it is not matter; therefore its cause must be the same.  Mind can affect matter and vice versa, but the two are mutually exclusive. For if something is devoid of colour, shape, or material dimension, it cannot at the same time be matter.”

Geshe Tashi Tsering, Buddhist Psychology, p.15

As both Geshe Tashi and His Holiness make clear, in Buddhism there is no room for the belief that mind is matter, or matter somehow transmutes into mind.

Here it seems the subject we are studying and practising, and the cultural beliefs we have inherited, collide.

Share your thoughts on what can be a difficult, even upsetting area of study on the one hand, or an uplifting, liberating topic on the other.

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