ON THE SPECIFICS OF ORIENTAL THOUGHT: MODERN SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATIONS OF BUDDHIST IDEAS
Currently, a growing interest of researchers in the Eastern tradition, representing inexhaustible source of knowledge about man and the universe. At the heart of works by V. Bondarenko, Z. Vildanova, U. Vildanovais understanding of wisdom and truth, which are the subject of philosophical knowledge. Wisdom and truth are considered «core» of eastern thought. We believe the specific Eastern thought impossible to characterize without «having knowledge beyond concepts» (Z. Vildanova). What are the «mechanisms» of thinking as the highest stage of human knowledge, from the point of view of the Eastern tradition? How is the process of comprehension of reality? How, from the point of view of Eastern philosophy, thinking allows a person to gain knowledge about objects, properties and relations that a person cannot perceive directly on a sensual level? What forms and laws of thought that ancient philosophy identified and understood? What are the specifics of the eastern thinking over western experience that has been accumulated in the theory of knowledge? In Buddhism, the object (citta) is thought of only as an idea «occurs» (utparma). What is the specific idea of «emerging»? Thought «occurs» (utparma) is thought of as one of its origin (utpada). That is the object of thought in Buddhism – is «the emergence of thought» (cittopada). Object (conceived) contemplated as dharma, as a momentary thought. In «dhyana» thinkable objects (similar to the «particles» in physics) precede yogic contemplation. What’s instantaneous. They occur – is minimal. This is a «time slice». We believe that it is possible to draw a parallel between the diversity of the Dharma and the world of elementary particles. We are interested in quarks, for the life cycle of some of them is~10–12 and 10–25 F. Shcherbatskoy appreciates the achievements of the school sarvastivadin’s who tried to mathematically determine the length of time.