Albert Einstein
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity." [Albert Einstein]
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
“It is a mistake to confuse the theories of modern physics with Buddhist theories of emptiness and phenomena.
Even if an idea of emptiness as the vacuous absence of phenomena is accepted by non-spiritual scientists, the great, empty space of their own limitless mind, which is the sky of wisdom, is not acknowledged.
Scientific theories of relative phenomena are totally different from the H?nay?na and Mah?y?na Buddhist teachings on the interdependence of phenomena. The result of nonspiritual scientific theory is the creation of substantial phenomena. The intention of Buddhism is to create substanceless light phenomena.
Also, no parallel can be made between nonspiritual scientific explanations of phenomena, which come from dualistic mind, and the Vajray?na Buddhist teachings of the clear appearance of nonsubstantial appearance, which come from wisdom mind. From the point of view of nihilist science, fundamental, wisdom mind is completely ignored as the source of phenomena, and no connection is even considered between phenomena and wisdom mind.” [Thinley Norbu Rinpoche]
See Also
Belief
Brahma
Buddha
Dogma
Religion
Scalar
Stillness
Whole Mind