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Volume 24, Issue 3
Pages 171–278
A. M. Schmalzer and A. J. Giacomin
Article first published online: 21 MAY 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201570008
Cover: The orientation of suspended rigid dumbbells in the large-amplitude oscillatory shear flow of a polymeric liquid is evolved and visualized. These orientations explain the observed nonlinearity in viscoelastic fluids. Further details can be found in the article by A. M. Schmalzer and A. J. Giacomin* on page 181.
Article first published online: 21 MAY 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201570009
Article first published online: 21 MAY 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201570010
Leandro G. Aguiar
Article first published online: 1 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201500018
The gelation dynamics is modeled through the Numerical Fractionation technique, which is applied for gel and sol phases (the numbers represent the chain generations). The cyclization reactions' rate depends on the degree of polymerization and on the good/poor solvent mixture's composition. These reactions are responsible for delaying the gelation process, affecting the porosity of the polymer particle, as shown in simulation results.
Article first published online: 29 DEC 2014 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400058
We examine the simplest relevant molecular model for large-amplitude oscillatory shear flow of a polymeric liquid: the dilute suspension of rigid dumbbells in a Newtonian solvent. We find explicit analytical expressions for the orientation distribution, and use these expressions to examine the detailed shape of the orientation distribution with detailed visualizations all the way around one full alternant cycle.
Ana West and James T. Kindt
Article first published online: 8 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400093
A simple equation relating the microscopic lifetime of associating chains in a transient network to the shear stress relaxation time, in terms of the concentration dependence of the plateau modulus, is proposed and tested against published experimental data on associating polymers near the gelation transition and against simulated networks well above the gelation transition.
Gülru Kayık and Nurcan Ş. Tüzün
Article first published online: 13 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400096
Propagation kinetics in free radical polymerization of N,N-dimethylacrylamide and N-methylacrylamide is modeled with quantum chemical calculations at dimeric model stage. The propagation rate constant ratio of these monomers is calculated with various density functionals. Calculations shed light on the electronic and steric effects and hydrogen bonding interactions within the reactive species that co-play a role in determining the favorable modes of additions.
Sebastian Primpke and Philipp Vana
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400087
A kinetic scheme describing Catalytic Chain Growth (CCG) polymerization was developed and implemented into the computer program PREDICI, by which experimental concentration versus time traces of the participating individual species obtained from online NMR spectroscopy as well as full molecular weight distributions could successfully be modeled. The method was demonstrated on the CCG of styrene-d8 in toluene-d8 using Cp*2ZrCl2 as the catalyst precursor and dibenzyl magnesium as the transfer agent.
L. Tom Hillegers and Johan J. M. Slot
Article first published online: 29 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400091
From the recipe straight to the MSD. For step-growth polymerized systems of general type "AfiBgi", a computer algebra method is presented that leads via a few transformation steps from the recipe to the MSD.
Changwoon Jang, Timothy W. Sirk, Jan W. Andzelm and Cameron F. Abrams
Article first published online: 29 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400094
MD simulations with ad-hoc cross-linking algorithms have been used to generate molecular models of fully cross-linked epoxy materials. Two such algorithms are compared, and it is shown that glassy-state thermal and mechanical properties were not significantly influenced by the algorithm choice. This result notwithstanding, it is shown that the two algorithms result in very different network isomers, pointing toward a possible experimental method of structure validation in future work.
Zhiping Zhou, Tongfan Hao and Deyue Yan
Article first published online: 14 FEB 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/mats.201400102
The kinetic model of the amphiphilic copolymers with hyperbranched core and linear arms was developed. The molecular size distribution functions of the species obtained were analytically derived. Accordingly, the topological structures of the amphiphilic hyperbranched copolymers and the successive self-assembly shapes can be designed.


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When the Nissan Leaf received a surprise price cut of $6,400 earlier in the month, it was a shot across the bow to automakers everywhere. With the world's most-popular mass market electric car now far more affordable, Ford apparently felt the need to launch its own round of incentives to stimulate EV sales. Now consumers can save more than $10,000 by leasing a Ford Focus Electric, while cash buyers will see their price drop by $2,
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An interview with Buddhist scholar David McMahan
When Western Buddhists sit down to meditate, many of us may imagine that we are doing the same thing Buddhists across the globe have done for centuries. We may think we are using the same practices Buddhists have always used to overcome suffering (and probably we hope to attain the same result).
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David McMahan studies the role of social and cultural context in meditation. A professor of religion at Franklin and Marshall College, he is the editor of the recently published volume Buddhism in the Modern World and the author of two books, including The Making of Buddhist Modernism (which Tricycle reviewed in Spring 2012). He is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals, reference works, and anthologies, and participates widely in conferences, seminars, and lectures across the United States and overseas. An expert on Buddhism's encounter with modernity, McMahan suggests that we approach the subject by considering a monk in ancient India. "He has left his family behind; he is celibate; he doesn't eat after noon; he studies texts that give him a skeptical view of the phenomenal world and its value. Is his practice really exactly the same," McMahan asks, "as that of a contemporary secular mindfulness practitioner who is meditating to excel at work or to be more compassionate to her children?"
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The double-whammy of rationalist thinking is that when we imagine truth is singular, cross-cultural, and ahistorical, we slam into the reality of historical change and cultural pluralism; when we accept that plural truth claims can be equally valid, we slam into relativism.
McMahan says, "The understanding that social science and contemporary philosophy and anthropology have brought to the importance of cultural context is a uniquely modern Western phenomenon." But he assures us that Buddhism's teachings on emptiness and dependent origination can shed important light on this seeming paradox. In June, I sat down with him during a break at a Mind and Life conference in Garrison, New York, to ask him to place Buddhism beside the contemporary Western intellectual tradition to explore why and how context matters.
–Linda Heuman, Contributing Editor
Is there some popular misconception you are pushing against in your work on Buddhism and modernity? There is a prevalent misperception, especially among Western practitioners, that what they are practicing is basically the same thing Buddhists have practiced since the time of the Buddha. They seldom recognize how contemporary forms of Buddhism have been re-contextualized by Western tacit assumptions and understandings.
Can you tell me about your current research on the role of context in meditation? I'm trying to see how meditation works in a systemic way within a culture. I'm trying to get away from meditative "states," or thinking of meditation in a static sense: "you do practice A and it leads you to state X." The meaning, the significance, the understanding, and the rationale for meditation in one culture might be different than in another. For example, if somebody from a Tibetan tradition who has had very little contact with the West does a particular practice, is it really going to be the exact same thing as a modern Western professional who is doing on paper "the same practice" but nested in very different contexts?
What exactly do you mean by "context?" First of all, there's the explicit context of the dharma. Right now, for the first time ever, we have contemplative practices derived from the Buddhist tradition that are being practiced completely independently of any Buddhist context. Secularization has filtered out what we would call "religious elements." It is those religious elements, those ethical elements, and those intentions that have always formed the context of meditation and that have made meditation make sense. Otherwise, what sense does it make to sit down for half an hour and watch your breath? Somebody has to explain to you why that matters, why it is a good idea, and what it is actually doing in the larger scheme of things. When meditation comes to the West completely independently of that, it is like a dry sponge; it just soaks up the cultural values that are immediately available. So it becomes about self-esteem. Or it might be about body acceptance or lowering your stress. It might be about performing lots of different tasks efficiently at work. It might be about developing compassion for your family. A whole variety of new elements now are beginning to form a novel context for this practice, which has not only jumped the monastery walls but has broken free from Buddhism altogether.
I know people who are not interested in being Buddhists or studying Buddhist philosophy who have really benefited from stripped-down mindfulness practice. So I'm not in a position to say, "Oh no, you shouldn't be doing this unless you can read Nagarjuna!" [Laughs.] Every culture has its elite religion and its more popular folk religion; it's almost like mindfulness is becoming a folk religion of the secular elite in Western culture. We'll see whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
To expand the idea of context further, there is also cultural context, which obviously can be very different. And again, there are a lot of tacit understandings there: I feel myself in a world of atoms and molecules and bacteria and viruses and galaxies that are unimaginably far away. I think I'm literally incapable of feeling myself in a world in which there are cold hells and hot hells beneath my feet. So in that sense, just our ordinary being-in-the-world—our "life world," to use a phenomenological term—is deeply conditioned by these cultural elements. And this cultural context provides novel goals and intentions to which meditation is put in service.
Does acknowledging the importance of context mean we have to be cultural relativists? I'm not a complete cultural relativist. I'm not saying everything is cultural. There are things that obviously go across cultures. We're all working with the same basic neurophysiology. But epistemologies and ways of seeing the world are deeply embedded in cultures. The basic categories we use to make sense of the world are culturally constructed. I think it's interesting that the Buddhist tradition has seen something of this—not so much in terms of culture, but in terms of language and concepts. For instance, Nagarjuna, in my reading, says that there's no set of categories that finally, simply, mirrors the world. All categories, ultimately, are empty of that self-authenticating representation of reality as it is. I think that insight is really an interesting one to take into the contemporary world, because now we can expand on that with this idea of culture.
You can see how that rubs up against the whole scientific enterprise. Even though good scientists are much more nuanced about it today than they would have been a hundred years ago, the ideal of the sciences is still "a view from nowhere." The purpose is to get us out of those contexts, to get us out of those very particularistic ways of seeing things. And that's going to be a tension between the humanities and social sciences on the one hand and the hard sciences on the other.
We want to have a kind of final understanding of the world. That's natural. We don't want to be told that the way we're seeing the world is just a product of our upbringing and our language and our culture. And yet there are certain things that can only be seen through the lenses of particular traditions or particular categories. So I think rather than seeing the existence of various systems of knowledge or taxonomies and so on as devaluing, you can see them as different lenses. That doesn't mean they're all the same and they're all equally valuable. Some may be much more valuable for certain purposes, and some may be valuable for other purposes.
What sorts of misunderstandings about meditation might practitioners fall into if they assume the context of meditation is unimportant? It can lead to dogmatism about progress in meditation along the path: here is this stage, here is the next stage. And we find these schemas in the Buddhist texts, so there is every reason for a good Buddhist to think those schemas of meditative progress are simply built into the nature of things—built into the mind itself. Why shouldn't we think that if we are going to be Buddhists and practice Buddhism? I'm not saying we shouldn't necessarily, but first of all, we are confronted with the plurality of maps of the path. This is the same general problem of pluralism that we are confronted with in the modern world. I don't even think it is unique to the modern world. One view would be to say that my map is simply the right one and everybody else is off. The other would be to say that there are lots of different maps, and that they do different things. If you look at actual maps of the earth, you realize that you can never really make a completely accurate map of the earth. Mapmakers struggle with this. Do you make it look curved? Do you represent roads? You just can't represent the earth on a flat piece of paper in an absolutely straightforward way. You have to make all kinds of choices. So where you are going and what you are doing really matters when you are trying to make a map. In the Theravada, the ultimate goal of meditation is to transcend the world completely. In the Mahayana, you want to come back as a bodhisattva over and over again. So these maps get configured differently.
Isn't the view that "no map is absolutely true" also a view? It is. In his Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, Nagarjuna lays out his understanding of emptiness, and then he makes a surprising, even an astonishing, move. He says, "Ultimately, everything that I've said is also empty." This is the idea of the emptiness of emptiness. He is admitting that everything he is laying out is also a pragmatic map, not an absolute system that corresponds to reality in an absolute way. There is some discussion and debate about whether when Nagarjuna critiques views he is talking about any view or just wrong views. I kind of like the "any view" view [laughs]—that any kind of map or system that you hang onto and make into something that you believe corresponds to reality in and of itself becomes a kind of bondage.
Isn't part of the problem here the assumption that "corresponding to reality in and of itself" is what it means for a map, concept, or idea to be true? After all, we Buddhists don't buy that there is reality "in and of itself." Very true. That is why we have such a hard time as modern Westerners trying to see a way around this problem. It is so firmly built into the Western Enlightenment system of thinking, and into modernity, that we have sentences and representations in our minds that correspond (or don't correspond) to external reality. Descartes and Bacon set up this whole way of thinking. There have been a number of moves in more contemporary Western thought—phenomenology, for instance—to develop a language that gets away from this. But it is deeply rooted in our culture to think that way. And science encourages us to think that way.
Maybe this tension is running through other cultures too—the tension between a very detailed systematic view of how things are versus a suspicion of our ability to construct a completely accurate model. In a lot of Abhidharma literature, there seems to be an attempt to account for everything, to get a category for everything, to really make a comprehensive accounting of the phenomenological reality of being human. I think it was in reaction to that systematizing that Nagarjuna and the Perfection of Wisdom came along and said that language doesn't work that way—it doesn't simply correspond to self-existing, independent entities that match our categories. So this tension is there even in the Buddhist tradition historically.
I think there is an assumption among many Western Buddhists that decontextualization of the dharma is okay because if non-Buddhists just do these meditation practices—for whatever reason—then they will have Buddhist insights. So it becomes almost a covert way of converting people.
Yes. From what you're saying, it sounds like maybe it's not so cut and dried. It is a little more complicated than that, because to have those insights you need to have a bit of that context in place. Explicit teachings are a context that reprograms the mind deeply, at both a conscious and a tacit level. It is no accident that Buddhists memorize and recite scriptures, repeating them over and over and over. This makes the dharma sink very deeply into the mind, so that it forms the tacit background of understanding. And that is part of what bubbles up in insight. It's not just that insight clears away everything and then—just boom!—there's bare insight into something. Reconditioning is a necessary precondition for at least some forms of insight.
Can you give me an example? Look at one of the earliest comprehensive meditation texts, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. I'm always fascinated by the fact that people work with this fundamental text today, because generally people just take one tiny slice of it—bare attention to breath and physical movements—and that becomes "mindfulness" in the modern world. But if you keep reading to the end of the sutra, you realize that there are all kinds of very conceptual aspects. And far from being simply "nonjudgmental," it suggests making wise and discerning ethical judgments and judgments on the value of various things. The sutra is training the mind to see the world and oneself in certain ways. Rather than have you see yourself as solid, singular, and permanent, it offers an alternative way to train to see yourself: five skandhas. It goes through the relationship between the senses and the external world. And then the sutra ends up with a meditation on the eightfold path and the four noble truths. You are meditating on a thumbnail sketch of the whole dharma! So there is a lot of conceptual stuff going on there. The text attempts to train the mind to see the world in a particular way that is conducive to following the Buddhist path and to making progress toward enlightenment. So the text supplies a whole raft of attitudes, orientations, ethics, and values that form the context—and sometimes the actual content—of the meditation practices. Bare awareness may be a starting place, a way of focusing and concentrating the mind. But this broader context supplies the rationales and aims of practice. Even in the most secularized contemporary mindfulness movements, there are lots of these values and attitudes that enter in because it doesn't really work without some kind of conceptual and ethical orientation.
Why do you think the importance of context is so hard to see here? I think that's fostered by a certain idea that meditation actually gets us beyond all context, that that's really what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to get us beyond this cultural stuff and make us transcend our culture. And I would say that this itself is an idea that's coming very much out of a modern context. Modern Western notions of freedom are often about freedom of the autonomous individual from social, institutional, cultural influences and conditioning. The idea that many modern practitioners have that meditation is somehow beyond cultural or other forms of context stems largely from D. T. Suzuki's articulation of Zen, which really emphasizes the non-conceptual. It also comes out of the modern pluralistic context whereby, for the past couple of hundred years, we've been bumping into other cultures at an unprecedented rate, trying to figure out what to do with each other, recognizing each other's differences, and having wars about those differences. If we can get beyond concepts, then we are not bogged down in who is right and who is wrong and who has the right model of things. D. T. Suzuki says we can just cut through all that and get to a direct pure experience of reality in and of itself, beyond cultural context.
There is a place at a certain point for overcoming concepts and conditioning, but there is also a lot of reconceiving and reconditioning. The idea is to transform the mind, not just to extract it from all cultural influences. Buddhism itself is a culture—one that attempts to train and condition minds in specific ways conducive to awakening. In some traditions there is the idea that you do transcend all causes and conditions completely, but there is a way to go before that.
Is there something to be said about the Buddhist notion of dependent arising in relation to context? If phenomena are dependently originated as the teachings tell us they are, in a sense it is all context. Yes, exactly. The very notion of things arising from causes and conditions is an affirmation of the importance of contextuality. It's no accident that the concept of dependent arising or interdependence has become so prominent in understandings of Buddhism today. The world is so interconnected today that everybody is talking about this.
In the earliest forms of Buddhism, the notion of dependent arising or interdependence was not really good news. It was a device to explain how suffering arises (as in the twelve links). It wasn't a celebration of our interconnectedness in a living web of creation. It was something you wanted to extract yourself from; it was bondage. With the arising of the Mahayana, especially in China, there was a shift in understanding the phenomenal world and its significance. Chinese Buddhists were able to look at nature as an expression of buddhanature—and there were debates about whether trees and grasses could be enlightened and whether they really were sentient. Also, there were a lot of nature metaphors for enlightenment. And so the Chinese appreciation of nature infuses itself into this idea of interdependence and provides a more world-affirming version of it, which then centuries later runs into the Transcendentalists and the Romantic view of nature and deep ecology. Now we have a whole new flourishing of the notion of interdependence that has been informed not only by these streams of Buddhism but also by various Western ideas of interdependence.
So there is a shift that happens over many centuries. There emerges the possibility of seeing the world both as a place of suffering and bondage and also as a place of liberation—a projection of the buddhas and bodhisattvas, like a training ground or a pure land, a place in which there is a sacred and wondrous hidden aspect in the ordinary things of the world. The Avatamsaka Sutra symbolizes this by wild visions of tiny universes in grains of sand or the pores of the Buddha's skin. The attitudes toward the world itself become more varied and complex. And then, when you get to the modern world, certain realities and concepts in the modern world serve like magnets that pull out particular ideas from the Buddhist tradition, leaving others behind. Interdependence is one of these ideas that has really been pulled out. Not the old idea of the twelve-link chain of dependent origination. That idea resonates with people who really immerse themselves in the Buddhist worldview, but when I try to explain it to my students, they don't get it right away. But when they read a paragraph by Thich Nhat Hanh about interdependence—how the paper is dependent on the sunshine, and the cloud, and the lumber worker, and all that—they immediately understand it.
Conditions right now in the world are such that interdependence is a prominent and obvious fact. Everything is connected through communications technology and through ease of travel. We know that if we screw up the environment over here, it can affect things on the other side of the world. So suddenly the image of Indra's net attains new significance; in fact, it has become one of the most prominent images and concepts in modern articulations of Buddhism, while it had nowhere near that prominence in the past, except in a particular Chinese Buddhist school.
I do think this pointing out of historical change and the relativity of cultural contexts can be very disturbing and destabilizing. It is not necessarily a comforting thought. But it is interesting that it is destabilizing in a way that Buddhism has been pointing out all along.
Linda Heuman is a Tricycle contributing editor.
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Indeed, Jay Michaelson and I recently taught a class on how context influences not only how we integrate meditation into our lives, but how the relative is the nature of inner peace and liberation itself.
What's interesting is that in many ways McMahan is reproducing the post-modernist deconstruction of structuralist thought, for the central themes of the four noble truths and eightfold path—such as the insights of Levi-Strauss, Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure—were originally presented as culturally transcendent and timeless.
The Buddha certainly presents his core insights, such as the four noble truths, as culturally transcendent, referring to them as a 'knowledge and vision that arose that is timeless and unsurpassable' and such was reproducible for all practitioners who followed in the steps he outlined.
One might argue that beyond basic human neurophysiology, there are other culturally uniform human tendencies—transcultural consistencies in the way we react to stress, along with the basics of attachment theory in human development—that form a foundation for arguing not everything about the dharma is influenced by context. But Foucault would certainly have disagreed! And the issue may well be never settled.
Just as there is no one "correct" way to visually depict the Buddha, there is also no one correct way to meditate. Nor is there only one correct way to THINK about meditation. "It's all about process," as my old gf used to say. [And yes, she was an art student and yes she generally said this as I was rolling my eyes at some horrid piece of conceptual art.]
I'm a Buddhist meditator who teaches other people (generally non-Buddhists) to meditate, and these reflections and considerations are fascinating in that they mirror so precisely the difficulties I'm having to work around. There is a conception that mindfulness makes for a better YOU, which to an extent is an approach that I have to navigate with in order to share the experience of mindfulness so that insight can begin to stir.
My experience/my view is that the unconditioned is precisely that, outside cultural relativism - which is why so often, I think, I come across experiences in the sutras that seem to speak so exactly to my own, and why I think of "enlightenment" as beyond language, beyond philosophy, beyond constructed thought. Yes, a contradiction in terms, I know!
It's perhaps useful to frame these discussions in terms of karma, the multilayering, self-proliferating habits and volitions, but also tradition, language and culture, that we need to let disperse to reach liberation. In this view, dependent arising makes sense as the framework within which our karma, our ignorance, is built and which we need to let crumble. In a sense, perhaps, the tradition we work within is important to the extent that we have to recognise we are working within it, and have to therefore make best use of it. But what really counts is the integrity and clarity with which we investigate our own experience.
Buddhist practice-realization begins where the dirt road of culture and ideology ends. We're language-adapted primates so it's natural to use our mouth noises, written symbols, and thoughts to point to and try to describe and understand the mystery at the heart of being. But signifiers can only signify, like the old proverbial finger pointing to the moon. The moon, however, exists independently of culture. The implication and meaning of the moon are definitely culture and context-bound, but not the moon itself. Likewise, the experience of intimacy (no-self) is not culturally dependent. When Chinese Zen Master Yunmen says "My body's so big there's no place to put it," the experience/insight that prompted those words during the Tang Dynasty (a radically different culture from this one) is very much available to us here in the 21st century. As long as whatever cultural/ideological matrix we're in provides a path that allows us to get in touch with and live out of that which is eternal—beyond birth and death and yet not separate from birth and death—Buddhism will thrive and adapt and evolve in disparate cultures and subcultures, as it has for 2500 years.
If by Dhamma we mean the way to enlightenment then that will change if we change - for example if we are a Westerner instead of an Easterner - because the way to enlightenment starts from where we are, rather than from any fixed point. These are subtle changes but are not always so subtle.
Many years ago now, before buddhism became important in my life, I integrated an understanding of the universe based on post-structuralist thought and work of social construction of reality social scientists. With nothing left to stand on, nothing left to hold on to, I started sinking into a total morass of nihilism. I pulled myself out of it by going through it--that is--I came to realize/integrated the understanding that my "construction" of the world is as correct/valid as any other social construction--if all are equally invalid then all are equally valid. I chose to live in a way that affirms life. I also knew that how I chose the world would help "construct" the world and the choice I needed to make is whether to build a world where life is affirmed or where nothing is of value. I had read buddhist texts and commentaries before this, and I had some experience with meditation--beginning when I was a Marine stationed on Okinawa in the late 60s and was introduced to the practice while studying karate in an Okinawan dojo, but I did not have a regular practice until I joined a Soto Zen sangha about four years ago. My religious practice has provided me with the tools to deepen my original insight and is a source of joy. I have a special fondness for Nagarjuna and Dogen as pioneers who help put my experience in "context." Every day I gain a new appreciation for the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path, the precepts and the paramitas. Thank you for this wonderful interview, may it help us all along the way.
"It's not just that insight clears away everything and then—just boom!—there's bare insight into something. Reconditioning is a necessary precondition for at least some forms of insight."
Thank you for this interesting interview. It is interesting tot compare these comments on contemporary Buddhism with one's own attitudes and practice.
I have to disagree with the above statement. I came to Buddhism some years after a moment of insight and that happened without any reconditioning whatsoever. Quite the opposite: only after this I realized that some reconditioning of my mind was necessary, that a "transformation" of my life was needed and possible. Because I had missed an essential aspect of my existence that I then knew had always been there. I'm sure the same has happened to many people, Buddhists and non-Buddhists.
The Buddhist teachings and modern commentaries on them seemed to describe my intuition accurately and offer ways to integrate this in my everyday life. Of course I picked the parts that appealed to me, an estranged secular humanist. Now, some ten years later, I pick other parts. So context matters, and so does personal history and practice.
Scattered comments in response to this interview:
Sometimes we are caught up in the zeitgeist.
When meditating forget meditation. Then what becomes of it?
What becomes of this notion of interdependence or interpenetration of things when it remains a property of the intellect?
Meditation is not an organizational principle around one's life. It does not exist at least in this way. Instead, one cultivates virtue through service, study, prayer seasoned with moments of silence. There is no experience of the transcendent, no expansion of consciousness, no profound thoughts only this long procession throughout life where one foot is placed in front of the other.
I'm very glad to see such an interesting article. I've not read anything by Prof. McMahan before, but I will start to pay better attention to his scholarship. I particularly appreciate his focus on the collision between modern secular influences, and that of the teachings of the Suttas, especially on sati or mindfulness. Prof. McMahan identifies the differences between what the Buddha taught as samma sati, or right mindfulness, (wise and discerning ethical judgments and judgments on the value of various things) and the stripped down consumer version of mindfulness that is now part of the western Buddhist menu (nonjudgmental awareness):
"Bare awareness may be a starting place, a way of focusing and concentrating the mind. But this broader context supplies the rationales and aims of practice. Even in the most secularized contemporary mindfulness movements, there are lots of these values and attitudes that enter in because it doesn't really work without some kind of conceptual and ethical orientation."
The problems inherent in western mindfulness practice without an ethical and value based ethos are just a slice of the western Buddhist pie that needs to be examined carefully. I, for one, feel the Buddha's Sutta based teachings are timeless and that the example of the renunciate bhikkhu/bhikkhuni holds a relevant place in a modern world increasingly bent on greed, anger, consumerism, and delusion. It's my view that Buddhism need not fundamentally adapt and change to the modern world, but that the modern world pay some real attention to what the Buddha taught as Dhamma 2600 years ago. While the Buddha embraced the idea that some aspects of practice could adapt to different cultures and times, at no time did he suggest that the Dhamma be changeable or malleable to suit modern tastes. In fact, the loss of the core Dhamma and Vinaya was one of the Buddha's concerns as he approached his passing. I am glad that Prof. McMahan is devoting his scholarship to some of these important issues, and look forward to hearing much more from him.


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September 25, 1789, was the date the Bill of Rights were initially proposed to congress by James Madison. These were ten amendments that would go on to ratify the Constitution. The Bill of Rights are widely misconstrued in purpose. This is by design by our current politicians. Most think that the Bill of Rights are rights given by the government to the people. This furthers the argument that they can be changed whenever congress wants.
Not at all. The whole purpose of the Bill of Rights is to set limits on government actions in regard to personal liberties. As in, the government shouldn't be able to touch these at all. The government gives you permission to drive your car on public roadways. They could take that away, but not free speech nor…
Enter the second amendment. Going along with the theory that the founding fathers were not stupid… They included the second amendment to protect all other amendments.
I am sick and tired of hearing the same argument over and over again that the second amendment is about personal protection. While that sounds nice, it absolutely gives the other side of the issue an argument that types of guns should be outlawed. You don't need a thirty round magazine to protect yourself. Stop saying you do.
The only reason you would ever need a thirty round magazine is the only reason the founding fathers included the 2nd amendment in the Bill of Rights. Which was to protect the people from the government. The second amendment is the only thing protecting the most important amendment, the freedom of speech.
"To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason
They feel like they can take our guns away because we already encouraged them to take all of our other rights away with things like the USAPATRIOT act. You can't be for something as liberty infringing as that, yet be for gun ownership.
The same quote I used as an example when the USAPATRIOT act first came about, I will use again.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." – Benjamin Franklin.
Take a stand. Call/Write your congress. If we lose this, we lose all of our freedoms.
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"Boo Ted Cruz!"
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1. Preheat the oven to Broil. Spray a 9 x 13-inch casserole dish with cooking spray.
2. Put the poblanos, skin sides up, on a foil-lined baking sheet and flatten them with your hand. Broil for 10 minutes, or until the poblanos are blackened. Put the poblanos in a plastic zip-top bag and seal. Let stand 10 minutes.
3. Decrease the oven temperature to 350°F.
4. In a large skillet set over medium-high heat, combine the beef and onion. Cook, breaking up any lumps with the back of a spoon, until the beef is browned through, about 10 minutes. Drain off the fat, and then sprinkle with the cumin, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, and the pepper.
5. Put half of the poblanos in the prepared casserole dish. Sprinkle with the cheese and top with the meat mixture. Arrange remaining poblanos over the meat.
6. Mix the flour and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of the salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the beaten eggs, milk, and Tabasco. Gradually add the egg mixture to the flour and stir until smooth. Pour over the casserole.
7. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted just off-center comes out clean. Let cool for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
freezes well! For best results, prepare the casserole through step 4. Wrap in foil and freeze for up to 2 months. Thaw the casserole overnight in the refrigerator before baking as stated in the recipe. Note that casseroles that have not been completely thawed may take 15 to 30 minutes longer, so be sure to check for bubbling edges and a hot center.
Reprinted with permission from The Casserole Queens Make-A-Meal Cookbook. Copyright © 2013 by Sandy Pollock and Crystal Cook. Photographs copyright © 2013 by Ben Fink. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House LLC.
Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock, the Casserole Queens, have been delivering casseroles in Austin, Texas, since 2006. New York Times bestselling authors, they are hosts of the Casserole Queens Web series on YouTube's Hungry channel, and they write a monthly column for Woman's Day.


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Today's outing was a village walk - in English. I am OK with a lot in French but an hour walking tour would be too much for me. Interesting and some good photos
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Gal Gadot, who will appear as Wonder Woman in the upcoming film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, took the Ice Bucket Challenge yesterday after Ben Affleck, aka Batman, accepted the challenge on Monday.
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"At this point the team is growing, not shrinking."
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Saturday, 23 May 2015
Face-Off: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
To what extent can PS4 and Xbox One match the fully maxed PC experience?
Friday, 22 May 2015
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
CD Projekt tackles The Witcher 3 downgrade issue head on
"We don't feel good about it."
Monday, 18 May 2015
Sunday, 17 May 2015
Face-Off: Oddworld New 'n' Tasty
The Unity engine-powered remake compared on PS3, PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Friday, 15 May 2015
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Sunday, 10 May 2015
Face-Off: Project Cars
Are we close to the full PC package on PS4 and Xbox One?
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