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"The Tetralemma" is the tale of a young scientific polymath who, having achieved sudden wealth in the computer industry, enjoys encounters with various Buddhists, LSD, a journey through India, a Burmese vihara, wisdom-bearing damsels, a Tibetan lama, acquires a Buddhist name, ends up in Kyoto chanting the Heart Sutra, realizes an enlightenment and returns to America wondering what to do with his secular self. Described as a serio-comic tour through modern Buddhism, the story illustrates how life's completely random encounters causally create a chain-of-events on the meaning of silent words in one's mind and of thought, of consciousness, of chance and necessity, philosophical emptiness, the "middle-way", psychedelic chemicals, mathematics, neuroscience, enlightenment, machine intelligence, and once again the absolute indispensable future of sex.
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The Tetralemma: A Buddhist Entertainment, Morris Edward Opler
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- The Tetralemma: A Buddhist Entertainment
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Morris Edward Opler
- Publisher
- T.Biehlig Media
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN10
- 1667839012
- ISBN13
- 9781667839011
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes
- Description
- "The Tetralemma" is the tale of a young scientific polymath who, having achieved sudden wealth in the computer industry, enjoys encounters with various Buddhists, LSD, a journey through India, a Burmese vihara, wisdom-bearing damsels, a Tibetan lama, acquires a Buddhist name, ends up in Kyoto chanting the Heart Sutra, realizes an enlightenment and returns to America wondering what to do with his secular self. Described as a serio-comic tour through modern Buddhism, the story illustrates how life's completely random encounters causally create a chain-of-events on the meaning of silent words in one's mind and of thought, of consciousness, of chance and necessity, philosophical emptiness, the "middle-way", psychedelic chemicals, mathematics, neuroscience, enlightenment, machine intelligence, and once again the absolute indispensable future of sex.