“The quest tosurviveis innate in all sentient beings.” Verb ▲ (of an object)To continue to exist, especially over a (long) period of time “We are determined to ensure that these natural wonderssurvivefor future generations to appreciate.” ...
In fact, our interpretation of the word is vague.The Mastersaid,“Mind of Bodhi means dedicating to the Dharma and the welfare of all sentient beings and living altruistically at every moment.”When I heard this, I was shocked and his words lingered in my mind. 后来,同行的善友分享给我,...
, in the north-east quarter there is a country named Mahaa Ciina. In the centre of this country there is a mountain named Five Peaks. The youth Mañju’srii will roam about and dwell there, expounding on the Dharma at the centre of the mountain for the sake of sentient beings. ...
In my reflection, it seems we should reserve the word “sentient” for what science generally explores. Is a being self-aware in the roughly anthropocentric sense of having a self-referential self image abstract enough to produce and/or communicate such a representation? Consciousness, on the ...
While the French law recognizes animals as sentient beings, the average population considers them “objects”.Remember, this is the country where hunting constitutes “cultural patrimony”,where songbirds are caught in glue traps, and where wildlife species suffer atrociously painful deaths in maiming...
. That Romero adheres to this view is shown by his defining theWorldas “the composition of all actual events and processes” ─ the weasel word being ‘actual’. Hopefully, not allpossibleevents are alsoactual; for if they were/are there is “nothing new under the sun” and as far as...
If these “great men” are torturing sentient beings physically weaker than themselves like babies and animals, isn’t that the very definition of a scumbag? Actual science = Natural Science Natural science is where swinence gets any (undeserved) good reputation it has. It’s based on ...
I don’t know if this applies to other minds, but reasoning of this sort helps at least me to give less weight to my own quirky idiosyncratic, “selfish” values and focus more on my “bland”, generic values and utilitarian preferences such as reducing the suffering of sentient beings in...
that is they are sentient. Mental homologies have been largely ignored by behavioural scientists since Darwin because of certain historical beliefs. This however has not been the case for people who have had to do with non-human mammals who have long recognized their mental similarities to humans...