Mar 11, 2009

Charles Darwin 'inspired by Tibetan Buddhism'


မြတ္ဆလင္ေတြ… မင္းတုိ႔ေကာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ သတင္းကုိ မီဒီယာေတြမွာ သတ္တာ၊ ဗုံးခြဲတာ နဲ႔ မိန္းမေတြကုိ ေစာ္ကားတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းပဲျမင္ရပါတယ္။ မင္းတုိ႔ေကာင္းတဲ့အေၾကာင္းေရးထားတာ မြတ္ဆလင္ဘာသာ ၀က္ဆုိက္ပဲရွိတယ္ေနာ္။ အခုသတင္းကုိ ဘယ္က ေဖၚျပလဲ သိခ်င္ရင္ ဒီမွာ Click လုပ္ၾကည့္။ ငါတုိ႔က မြတ္ဆလင္ေတြလုိ မီဒီယာေတြကုိ ပုိက္ဆံေပးျပီး သတင္းေရးတဲ့ အေလ့အထ မရွိဘူးဆုိတာ မင္းတုိ႔ အသိဆုံးေနမွာပါ။ ေၾသာ္ ငါတို႔ အခုလုိေျပာဆုိေနတာ မင္းတုိ႔ကုိ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ေျပာင္းဖုိ႔ ၾကိဳးစားတယ္ မထင္နဲ႔။ ငါတုိ႔ ဗုဒၶဘာသာက အေရအတြက္ထက္ အရည္အခ်င္းကုိပဲ ဂရုစုိက္တယ္။ မင္းတုိ႔ ေကာင္ေတြ ယုတ္ညံ့တဲ့ မြတ္ဆလင္ ကုိထြက္ဖုိ႔ ၾကိဳးစားေနတာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ငါတုိ႔ဆီလာဖုိ႔ မလုိဘူးဆုိတာလဲ ၾကိဳေျပာထားမယ္။

Charles Darwin could have been a Buddhist, according to a scholar who has identified "amazing" similarities between his writing and Tibetan philosophy.

Passages in which the Victorian scientist addressed compassion and morality were "virtually the same, or exactly the same" as Tibetan Buddhist texts, according to Professor Paul Ekman, a psychologist who studies the links between human emotions and facial expression.

Prof Ekman said that his friend the Dalai Lama had also remarked on the parallels. He said: "When I read the Dalai Lama some of Darwin's passages he said: 'I will now call myself a Darwinian'."
Darwin is best known for devising the theory of evolution to explain to diversity of species, but also wrote widely about the emotional bonds between humans, and similarities between the emotions of humans and animals.

"The Buddhist view, like Darwin, said that the seed of compassion is in mothering, global compassion: focus on others as mother. When I see you suffer it makes me suffer, and that motivates me to reduce your suffering so I can reduce my suffering," Prof Ekman told the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago.

"The words Darwin used are identical to those used by Tibetan Buddhists to describe their compassion and morality. It is an amazing coincidence, if it is a coincidence, that his views... are identical to the Tibetan view.

"How did this coincidence occur? If it was contemporary the issue to plagiarism would arise because the words are virtually the same, or exactly the same. I'm by no means accusing Darwin of plagiarism."

Prof Ekman said that Darwin could have absorbed Tibetan Buddhist teachings through his friend and advocate Joseph Hooker, who travelled to Tibet in 1847. Darwin's wife Emma also had an interest in Buddhism.

(ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္ ။ ။ မုဒိမ္းေကာင္ လူရမ္းကား ၀ါဒကုိ ေဒါသမထြက္ပါနဲ႔… ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ရလုိ႔လဲ ပီတိမျဖစ္ပါနဲ႔. . . ကုလားကုိလဲ လူမ်ဳိးေရး မႏွိပ္ကြပ္ပါနဲ႔ . . အဲဒါေတြက အက်ဳိးမရွိပါဘူး။ ယုတ္ညံ့သည့္ ၀ါဒဆုိးၾကီးကုိ ျဖဳိဖ်က္ေရးမွာ ခင္ဗ်ားကုိယ္တုိင္ အုတ္တစ္ခ်ပ္ သဲတစ္ပြင့္အျဖစ္ လုပ္ကုိင္ေရးက လက္ေတြ႔အက်ဆုံးျဖစ္ပါသည္ )

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