What are the core truths and lessons learned by Shingon Buddhism, which if better understood and connected to the rest of us could make maximum contribution to grand challenge number 5, on the list of seven grand challenges to humanity which I now try to help us with? And how does it connect to new efforrsbto build grand unification from Buddhism to yoga and science?
_1. The 7 challenges______________
7 Grand Challenges This Century
● Four Great Fears (“Existential Threats”) : SURVIVAL
– Internet/AGI/IOT if we fail to reach Sustainable Intelligent
Internet (SII) --- Depends on mind, intelligent systems
– Climate extinction, all of our species and many others
– Misuse of nuclear tech, or biotech (e.g. werbos.com/
NATO_terrorism.pdf)
● Two Great Hopes: GROWTH
– Quantum leap in attaining human potential, including
our connections to each other & our noosphere (soul,qi)
– Economically sustainable settlement of space (e.g. NSS)
● SITUATIONAL AWARENESS FOR HUMANS
IN COSMOS: New tech (QAGI/axions) to see the sky
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2. What Shingon is
This past week I have learned a lot, probing into Shingon Buddhism, far beyond what my friends at Harvard thought they knew when they studied books by Fairbank and Reischauer (which I also read). A small fraction of our photos can be seen at:
Key summaries which we all should know about include:
Kukai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, worked very hard and successfully to develop a kind of pyramid of instruction, aimed at elevating human minds and souls to their highest potential. It IS a pyramid, which reminds me of the pyramid which my old friend James Momoh once used to elevate instruction in electric power engineering, starting from minority children up to new faculty and researchers. There is a huge wealth of experience, which does not complete this huge challenging area of work but can be a massive help to humanity in addressing the larger challenge it contributes to.
Because it is a multilevel pyramid... Many misconceptions have appeared about it.
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3. Misconceptions and deeper connections to yoga and dcience
But at werbos.com/religions.htm I post some further explanations.(Some out of date).
Emperor's of Japan often tried to create a war between Buddhism and Shinto, so as to degrade and control both. (I have seen similar history in more depth in the west, even in the life of George Washington whose land I am living on, according to some real estate people).
I can even.imagine Ku Kai smiling at a kind of two sided flag -- on the left a sun or solar system image involving the archetype of Amaterasu which reflects our solar system noosphere, and on right Orion reflecting our link to the deeper larger cosmos (Jung's Spirit of the Deep). Of course, Freud and Jung and the new neural network mathematics of intelligent systems (Mathematical General Intelligence, MGI) are also crucial to the new integration we need to be successful in all seven Challenges.
I can even.imagine Ku Kai smiling at a kind of two sided flag -- on the left a sun or solar system image involving the archetype of Amaterasu which reflects our solar system noosphere, and on right Orion reflecting our link to the deeper larger cosmos (Jung's Spirit of the Deep). Of course, Freud and Jung and the new neural network mathematics of intelligent systems (Mathematical General Intelligence, MGI) are also crucial to the new integration we need to be successful in all seven Challenges.
