All quotes from Zara, Alan, and Robert's book
"The brain as a whole
tends to the best it can by integrating all of its resources that are
available". Robert B Livingston
"According to
Buddhist theory, there are some things that belong to subtle consciousness, or
subtle mind, that are independent from the body, from the brain. There's no assertion in Buddhism that there
is a thing called a soul or a thing called consciousness, something that exists
independently of the brain. There is no
such thing existing independently of the brain or being dependent upon the
brain. But rather, consciousness is
understood as a multifaceted matrix of events".
Dalai Lama
"When someone builds
a house to live in, you have to have a plan.
And on the basis of that plan you build the house, and then later you
can live in it. In the same manner, sentient beings who produced the evolution
of this present universe made this plan, but not necessarily consciously, by
leaving karmic imprints within their subtle mental consciousness, which later,
when activated, made it possible to influence the formation of this universe". Thubten Jinpa
"Although the world
is put together for us in consciousness, it is assembled from a distributed,
analytical, decision-making apparatus which has a surprisingly marvelous gross,
microscopic, and ultrastructural architecture". Antonio R Damasio
"When death occurs
suddenly, if one is in perfect health, one's memories still remain very
sharp". Dalai Lama
"The newborn infant
has about four times as much dream-state sleeping as the adult does". Allan Hobson
"The five elements
are the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and consciousness. Bear in mind, "earth" doesn't mean
dirt, it refers to the solid constituents of the body; water to the fluid
constituents". Dalai Lama
"When you have the
very subtle consciousness that one is supposed to have just before death, that
really does not mean that you have heightened, greater awareness, but rather
the contrary. It means that in fact you are reducing perception to very low
levels". Antonio Damasio
"The fewer the
examples, the stronger the evidence must be".
Allan Hobson
"Even in Buddhism
there is no notion of a self-sufficient, self-supporting "I", self,
soul, or ego. This is thoroughly
refuted. Buddhists do assert the existence of awareness, but to use the term
soul in a Buddhist context is misleading, because Buddhists don't use the term
and by and large refute the existence of a soul". Dalai Lama
"As a result of
scientific investigations, we have more less refuted the notion of a truly
existent self. You can't find a soul, or a human being. You can find the human body, but you can't
find the human being per se, the person qua person, the entity for which we
feel compassion and affection". Dalai
Lama
"The absence of an
intrinsic self is emptiness, and emptiness is something to be realized. It is not designed to reintroduce a
soul". Dalai Lama
"I always believe
that each individual human being has some kind of responsibility for humanity
as a whole". Dalai Lama
"According to the
Buddhist view… consciousness is simply of the nature of luminosity and
cognizance, much as fire is of the nature of heat". B Alan Wallace