Study Guide for Group 2

Chapter 6:
Which story/parable is meant to adjust the heart-mind, featuring the character Kisa Gotami and her journey through grief and sadness, eventually leading to new perspectives on her plight?
Answer: "The Parable of the Mustard Seed" (p. 182-3)

Chapter 5:
Which Chinese philosopher claimed that "everyone (even Hitler, we might say) will feel himself moved (emotionally and physically) to want to rescue a child falling into a well?"
Answer: Mencius (p. 152)

Another for Chapter 5:
Why did the Dalai Lama tell Flanagan in a private audience that he doesn't believe in reincarnation in the literal sense?
Answer: Flanagan believes this is because the idea is impossible to comprehend, and the details of how reincarnation could even begin to work for a being that has no-self presents serious logical problems.

Chapter 1: Who wrote The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha?
Answer: Roger-Pol Droit (p. 12-13)

Chapter 2: Who is the world's leading authority on the basic emotions (fear, anger, sadness, surprise, disgust, contempt, and happiness), as well as on the universal facial expressions that accompany them?
Answer: Paul Ekman (p. 45)

Chapter 3: Which view (in its minimalistic form) entails that every mental event has a neural correlate?
Answer: NCC or neural correlate of consciousness (p. 85)

Chapter 4: True/False, Buddhism claims that there are no persons.
Answer: False, It only denies that any person is an eternal self-same thing, or possesses an immutable, indestructible essence, which is its self (atman). (p. 98)

These are the only questions that we've posted for the book...6 of them are from me, 1 is from Samantha. Our group is slacking :(