You’re What You Sense

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  • Author: Ven. Bhikkhu Mihita
  • Publisher: Pariyatti Publishing
  • Imprint: Pariyatti Press
  • Publication Date: 03/14/2024
  • Pages: 165
  • Language: English
  • ISBN 13: ISBN 978-1-68172-646-5

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„Buddha is known as a religious teacher but few pay attention to his methodology—that his teachings were arrived at what could only be called scientifically, i.e., through a strict objectivity. Over six years leading up to his Enlightenment, what he did was to train his mind to be free from attachment—not only to the world but even to concepts (paññatti) and views (diṭṭhi) of any kind as well. The result of such fine-tuning of the introscope of his mind was total objectivity, a level a scientist could only envy.

It is in this objectivity that the Buddha declared that the only reality of the world, for a given individual, is what one gets through the senses, including the mind-sense, and senses alone, and indeed that you are what you sense.

If one finds spiritual comfort in the Buddha’s teachings, I will have been humbled if these pages provide you with some scientific comfort as well, the two being, for the Buddha, not mutually exclusive. Those who are looking for his scientific concepts, I have boxed them for easy identification, and listed them all together at the end.“

 

—Ven. Bhikkhu Mihita

 


“A very accessible and readable presentation of sometimes difficult concepts from Abhidhamma, knowledgeable, entertaining and often witty.”

—Mahathero Ajahn Punnadhammo, author, The Buddhist Cosmos: A Comprehensive Early Buddhist Worldview

 

It is a pleasure to see a book that conveys difficult topics in Buddhist Abhidharma clearly … the result of many years of experience teaching university and other students in Canada.

—Dr. Gareth Sparham, Univ. of Michigan, USA,
translator of The Fulfillment of All Hopes: Guru Devotion in Tibetan Buddhism (2000)

 

After reading this work, I have three tips of the hat to make. One for the Buddha, for creating a profound and comprehensive body of knowledge on sentient beings, one for the culture that brought forth Buddha and one for Prof. Sugunasiri for presenting this not so simple worldview in a lighthearted, easy to read, but comprehensive way.

—Dr. Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt, Professor of Physics, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada
and President, Science for Peace