#26 Ven Dr Buddharakkhita on Buddhism, Engineering, Afterlife and Woke Culture

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&

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