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TOWARDS A NON-RELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY<\/a><\/h2>
9 September, 2024<\/div>

We are facing one of the most profound periods of change in human history. This mutation is forcing us to be aware that we have to construct our systems and ways of life for ourselves, while rapid and frequent changes occur in our societies of continuous innovation.\r\n\r\nTo be able to guide our future, we must investigate what is happening, as well as the consequences arising \u2013 in all fields of our life \u2013 from the economic, social, cultural and religious events that are taking place before our eyes. We have to study what is occurring in our societies in order to calibrate what is happening to the language of the religious traditions of the past and their age-old legacy. Attributing the crisis in religion to the breakdown of culture is one way of evading the serious problem. The cause of this situation has been the general evolution of culture and its consequences.<\/p><\/div>

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The Consequences of New Technosciences (TC)<\/a><\/h2>
7 September, 2021<\/div>

The wealth of new technologies (Big Data, IA, robotics, nanotechnology, nanotubes, nanofibres, biotechnology, quantum computing, etc.) currently undergoing exponential growth must force us to seriously consider how we humans wish to live with the knowledge, technology and possibilities \u2013\u00a0 both good and bad \u2013 that come along with it.<\/p><\/div>

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Amazing day-after coronavirus disease global crisis<\/a><\/h2>
17 April, 2020<\/div>

For a long time, institutions do not properly work as well as citizens are deeply upset and annoyed with these institutions. They are looking for a real change in society which will be able to fix this sort of things which do not properly work. Tings must be changed.\r\n\r\nIt has been a long time, since the option for the Knowledge Society (KS) is not only an option. It is the real way which must be followed. This KS is absolutely unavoidable. It is already going on in several fields. This option for the KS should be more logically hierarchical with any of the contradictions that a heartless and exploiting capitalism handles all the potentiality of technosciences as well as the huge possibilities foreseen because of them. It seems that the severe health crisis after the coronavirus pandemic and all its effects might be the suitable instance to drive definitely society from an exploiter capitalism industrial society into a consistently one structured on a knowledge basis.\r\n\r\nEvery kind of dismantling which will undoubtedly follow the coronavirus may be the chance to get the big social transformation. On the other hand, it might be a missed occasion, and all the efforts would be focused on re-setting the way of life destroyed by the coronavirus, as we have seen it happened several times before.<\/p><\/div>

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The Bodhisattva Path in the Trump Era<\/a><\/h2>
18 January, 2017<\/div>

A talk given at St. Paul\u2019s United Methodist Church (November 22, 2016) \r\nTranscribed by Jeffrey Fuller and edited by David Loy ---\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s been two weeks today since the election, and many of us are still in a state of shock \u2014traumatized, disheartened if not depressed, anxious, angry, fearful and somewhat confused, wondering what\u2019s going to come next \u2014 and wondering if there might be some silver lining to what\u2019s happening. My response today has two parts. First I\u2019d like to identify a very real silver lining, or at least the possibility of a silver lining, depending on how we respond to the situation. And then I\u2019d like to say a bit about what I think is the most important contribution of Buddhist teachings to this situation, which can help us understand and respond to it.\r\n<\/p><\/div>

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The Tasks of Axiological Epistemology<\/a><\/h2>
9 October, 2016<\/div>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Axiological epistemology, or know-how on human axiological issues, must be based on our condition…<\/p><\/div>

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With faith and no beliefs<\/a><\/h2>
9 October, 2016<\/div>

The proposal of the religious traditions, to a society articulated upon initiative, creativity, innovation, and…<\/p><\/div>

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From scientific experiment to whole experience through freedom<\/a><\/h2>
9 October, 2014<\/div>

This paper is a meditation on the myth of freedom. It embraces freedom as a myth, i.e. as it is present in our consciousness before and beyond any notion or conceptualisation of it, and defying any attempt to its definition. Our meditation is on the creative power of this symbolic word, extending its scope beyond the confines of an exclusively human trait, to encompass all reality.<\/p><\/div>

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Questions mold our lives<\/a><\/h2>
25 July, 2014<\/div>

Congratulations! Thank you for inviting me today. Looking at this sea of bright, intelligent eyes is not only thrilling, it is inspiring, it is reassuring, it is humbling. I wish each and every one of you the very best in life.\r\nToday, as you get ready to leave Harvard, and enter the world of work, you are well-prepared. You have read a lot, you have learnt a lot, and I am sure you are brimming with ideas and theories that you are impatient to put into practice. If that is true, rest assured, your university has done its duty.<\/p><\/div>

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Religious Myths, Science and Society<\/a><\/h2>
10 July, 2014<\/div>

Myths and symbols are systems for programming pre-industrial and pre-cientific societies. They programme static societies that go on for a very long time in fundamentally the same way. Programming static societies means programming them for no change, to exclude change. This sort of programming is not possible unless it is believed that things, including the absolute itself, are as the myths and symbols say they are.<\/p><\/div>

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When research and inner path become one<\/a><\/h2>
22 December, 2013<\/div>

Centre Unesco de Catalunya. On Mystics: A congress. Barcelona, June 2001\r\n(Each participant was asked to introduce himself in connection to the subject, his personal stand point on spirituality).\r\n I embarked on a study of humanity\u2019s great religious traditions, from the perspective of the cultural conditions of the new situation. I started by studying the remoter cultural traditions, in order to avoid the interference of my own beliefs: Hinduism, Buddhism. As my research progressed I approached western religions, first Islam, then Judaism and finally the great Christian mystics. In this study my interest was centred in the depth of the message rather than questions of the doctrine or beliefs that were being expressed.<\/p><\/div>

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A revival of Religions?<\/a><\/h2>
9 December, 2011<\/div>

Published in La Vanguardia, April 16th, 2006 Intervention by Mari\u00e0 Corb\u00ed in the discussion: A…<\/p><\/div>

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The Problem Of Human Quality In New Societies<\/a><\/h2>
27 September, 2006<\/div>

In new societies, where economic success is linked to scientific and technical innovation capacity, as…<\/p><\/div>

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