Quote of the Day 20 January 2014 – empirical evidence

English: 14th Dalai Lama, Dharasmala, India
English: 14th Dalai Lama, Dharasmala, India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. … In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington.”
Dalai Lama XIV

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