Ven Dr Buddharakkhita is an Irish native, BSc & PhD from University College Dublin with a Diploma in Buddhism from ITBMU Myanmar. He has enjoyed a successful engineering career in semiconductor chip fabrication. He has practised meditation extensively in lay life since childhood. He was first ordained in 2006 in the Theravada Forest Tradition with two decades of training with renowned meditation masters across a range of practices. He has more than 30 years of experience living, working and practising meditation in Europe, US, Asia and Australia. His teaching has been well received.
- Emai Buddharakkhita on : knowtheheart@gmail.com
- Knowing the heart talk on YouTube https://youtu.be/09SCzptegoE
- Gratitude talk on YouTube https://youtu.be/oIohofxuIZc
In this episode we discuss
- Buddharakkhita’s background, education and his path to Buddhism
- Specialisation versus Generalised approaches
- Philosophize this Podcast https://www.philosophizethis.org/
- Ricky Gervais show “Afterlife” https://youtu.be/JDtJhIQSdao and https://youtu.be/jpiM2z9ARm4 John Stuart Mills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
- Ian’s coming to God and Ciaran’s experience with meditation
- Marks of Existence in Buddhism
- The Perils of Politicizing Science, Anna I. Krylov, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2021 12 (22), 5371-5376, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475 Read here https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475?ref=pdf&