Buddhism & Cognitive Science

A 2,500-year map of the mind.
Tested by modern science.

3 hands-on lessons on mindfulness, craving, and self-illusion — cross-checked against neuroscience and CBT.

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Only 3 lessons so far — but they're the deepest writing on this site, about 15 minutes each. Buddhism as mind-science, not religion, cross-checked against CBT and neuroscience. More lessons are on the way.

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✓Use the Four Noble Truths as a practical diagnostic for suffering

✓See how craving and mental proliferation generate distress

✓Connect Buddhist mind-training to CBT and modern neuroscience

✓Start a mindfulness practice grounded in mechanism, not mysticism

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The Four Noble Truths as Cognitive Diagnostics

The Buddha's diagnostic framework and Aaron Beck's CBT are independent discoveries of the same architecture — Beginner

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The Four Noble Truths as Cognitive Diagnostics

The Buddha's diagnostic framework and Aaron Beck's CBT are independent discoveries of the same architecture

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The mind that clings to a fixed world in a changing one is perpetually generating its own suffering

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The Illusion of Self (Anattā) and the Narrative Brain

There is no pilot in the cockpit — just a narrator who arrived after all the decisions were made

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A 2,500-year map of the mind.
Tested by modern science.