News Round Up for w/e 4th June 2023

In a World of Human Ignorance, Can Artificial Intelligence Help? While Altman has at times expressed deep concern about the potential for AI to do harm in the world, in this interview he was clear that what AI does will ultimately depend on...

Grandmother Mind Grandmothers care about others and shed tears for their suffering. That’s why Dogen said having Grandmother Mind is the most important thing of all. Zen teacher Susan Moon contemplates her own journey as a grandmother and her responsibility as an ancestor-to-be.

Metropolitan Museum of Art to Showcase “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE” The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will display more than 140 objects of early Buddhist art in a special exhibition titled “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE” from 18 July to 13 November.

Is Buddhism a form of psychology or psychotherapy? The Buddha lived and taught 2,500 years before the field of psychology was established, but the teachings he left behind include wide-ranging and profound analyses of human behavior that overlap in many ways with the findings of contemporary psychology. The Buddha’s path of practice, moreover, can be seen as a kind of self-directed therapeutic strategy for ending the suffering caused by the mind.

Krishna-Kansa tales in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism The story of Krishna’s sister, the girl that escaped Kansa's wrath, endures even as her image changed as Buddhism and Jainism eclipsed Vedic culture and then again with the resurgence of Hinduism