Matthieu Ricard & Dalai Lama

Western People discovered that questioning Buddhist meet the demands of a new age. Westerners are God's refusal to explain Buddhism has no God. West thanks to Darwin to explain that the universe is not due to a creator who does all in seven days, said Buddhism over 2500 years ago that the time is without beginning and without end, the universe is infinite . Western snoring immediately feared the final judgment of God, Buddhism says no one judge us all, only human judgment only human. Western concern about the problem, the Buddhist metaphysical storytelling arrow: poison arrows when he was shot in the body, he should withdraw it immediately or you ca promising opportunity by someone shooting arrows, how history , where household. Remove this arrow: the need for human liberation in the West and they found a place of Buddhist answer with reason, lay emphasis on experience, on practice, and results verified by itself, right in this life, not wait until heaven, hell.

With reason: Westerners admire ethos of Buddhism, as Buddhism different from other religions.

Buddha ' t deny religious beliefs if not based on intellect.

Therefore, in Buddhism there is no dogma. Western economic Kalama admire the Buddha: Do not believe anything even if it is written in the scriptures or books. Make observations, thoughts, experiences, and new empirical information. That spirit throughout Buddhist scriptures. Western intellectuals saw that spirit with science, with critical minds. "Buddhism is the only religion to adapt to modern science," Einstein said so.

Why Buddhism with science? Because Buddhism does not say anything without verification. Buddhism says things are impermanent. Take a look around with his eyes, his experience: there is something permanent where? The only thing permanent is this moment here. Then find paradise in the place where if not this moment? Happiness is right where every moment: that is the lesson that the most valuable modern Buddhism brought to the West. And let's look further: all things are interrelated that correlate with each other and that killing. Where the other pink flower itself which does not? It's not! If you do not have it where the sun had rose petal so? But the sun is the sole author of pink there? No! Because if there is no rain, how flowers live? But rain can also be caused by clouds, clouds and water vapor are also due. This can have the other one, this one is not the other one does not. It is selfless Buddhist law and also the law correlation born. Who's reading the physical universe Trinh Xuan Thuan school knows: the laws which are more scientific point of convergence with the physical universe. Laws that apply to their lives, family life, social life, no need to find reassuring paradise far away. That's not to mention the law of cause and effect that anyone can easily verifiable. Since then, people in the West go to a more modern look to the nature of life to understand the word "suffering" in Buddhism. They questioned God: If God is omnipotent then born as chi calamity, earthquakes, storm surges, this translator to translate it killed hundreds of thousands of people for a moment like this? If he is benevolent, why people miserable, miserable man, He located? Affordable, Westerners asked, suffering lies within the nature of life in the sea as salt, aging, sickness and death that birth is only the most visible aspect? Since then, the West understand the term "nirvana" of Buddhism rather than the 19th century: the end of suffering is nirvana, that all suffering is yourself. I myself, every time I hear someone pray for the dead is ethereal, I can not help but chuckle, because "super" is overcome, "escape" liberation, beyond anger and ignorance are liberated, so they should pray for the salvation of people live. I dare not kidding, people in the West know better than us, because they understand the main ideas of their replication: cloning human meaning beyond human, humans have the ability to rise above the themselves.

But beyond how specific way? This is something new that brought Buddhism to the West and bring in the spirit of science. Historically, the West has exceeded one constant through centuries to explore the outside world. But at some point they suddenly startled to see that explore the outside world is not enough to bring about as happy as they thought because there are people living inside.

Dalai Lama reminds them: "The problem we have, though from the outside, like war, as violence, such as crime, or from the suffering in the form of psychological or emotional , will never find a solution as long as we still do not understand our inner depth ".

That's when he and the monks of Tibet enlightened America to Europe, bringing a new science sheds light shine into the inner man, to make a second revolution Westerners call " revolution inside the "complementary" revolution outside "that the West has ever done, ever known to science. The key to happiness lies somewhere other than in inner individual. But want to see what it is to leave the key inside the shed with the meditation techniques that Tibetan monks by the realization of their experience. In this area, do not attempt to do business the quack charlatan: European and American scientists have laid a solid foundation for expeditions into the human brain. The Tibetan monks brought itself to the modern machinery in the most prestigious universities of the United States measure the effects of meditation on the brain. They not only brought words, they take practice, they provide technical and specific method for scientists to observe, judge the efficacy of meditation, greatly contribute to the development of biology nerve. I confess: I have counted myself skeptical when reading historical Buddha, I do not understand how can Buddha meditated under a Bodhi tree ball over 49 days. Now, I understand that each of us has a spiritual energy reserves because we did not expect was never used. I will revert back to this point - our journey we find ourselves to heal and cure times.

Now, the problem continued and scientific replication, there must allure of Buddhism lies only in Buddhist science alone or not? I'm not talking about the depth of Buddhist philosophy here, nor wisdom, which comes to the West is looking back. I am limited to only a further problem: ethics. Ethics in the West are the commandments, the orders. The modern western feel like have fingers pointed at his forehead and ordered: this is not you, you are not like that, you're doing is a crime. Who sinned? Why such a crime? Why I must have another person with an Elevated confessions? Ethics that modern man feels rejected because they are still so juvenile. Buddhist Ethics contrary to the ideals, rooted in man. No one ordered, nobody prohibition. Buddhism says the suffering involved, courts are suffering, suffering is ignorance. From the happy, compassion is fun, joy, the fun, the discharge is fun. Compassion petal, every practice will have fun. Anger and ignorance, will find themselves trapped in suffering. Do not kill, do not lie, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not drunk: That was the year that I volunteer with me, do I get to where the light there. Buddhist ethics is experimental, aimed at making humans have had better, but the inner core is made serene, because peace is happiness.

Moreover, Buddhist ethics also wake people in the modern West that extends compassion and a sense of solidarity all around, not only between people but also between people and animals, with nature. Under the influence of their ancient religion, western cheer, from the 17th century to mobilize all efforts to conquer, rule of nature. That victory, thanks to humanity. Lumber rivers, mountains cover: What do humans, human nature has been turned. But nature has also been exploited, exploited to exhaustion, bald forests, wet chemicals, water contamination, we know better than anyone. And ultimately, people eat the food out toxins emitted by the man himself. Ethics for nature becomes the responsibility of the people. Other religions say do not kill people. Buddhism says: I am determined not to kill, not kill meaning of life, and the lives that have animals, trees are natural, cosmic, atmospheric, earth are all associated man, to love each other as a new vital it together.

I had a problem affecting modern negative: environmental issues. Because not something modern or well. Modern also very negative. Modern also in crisis. So after praise modern and contemporary Buddhism explains how, I started through the third point, the present crisis of modernity. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.20/5/2014.NAM MO SAKYA MUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).