Summary: Dhamma on Air #55: The Participatory Anthropic Principle Corresponding Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKl1YzsnCI Lotus-offering-4 @ 3:55 Simile of the Cow's Hide @ 12:04 Question 177: Are the Devas interested in humans? @ 29:39 Question 178: What is causing unusually repulsive, invasive, and unintentional thoughts? Can this be Mara attacking? @ 39:27 Question 179: Was the Buddha silent, when asked about a Creator God? @ 49:50 The Participatory Anthropic Principle @ 59:29 Niels Bohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr John Archibald Wheeler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler John von Neumann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Eugene Wigner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner Simile of the Cow's Hide Canonical text source: Majjhima Nikaya MN 146: Nandakovada Sutta — Nandaka's Exhortation {M iii 270} https://what-buddha-said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/mn.146.than.html Giving Food = Classic Dana is advantageous here: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dana_via_Keels.htm If U wish 2 Support these Buddhist Videos & Audios: https://www.patreon.com/samahita All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here: https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm All Buddhist Question and Answer sessions are linked here: https://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Questions_and_Answers.htm Dhamma on Airs MP3 Audios are streaming & downloadable here: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita/sets/early_buddhism Please email New Questions to bhante.samahita@gmail.com Created by Samahita Thera: Email: bhante.samahita@gmail.com Website: https://what-buddha-said.net Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samahita Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samahita.thera Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita Google+: https://plus.google.com/+SamahitaThera/posts YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BhikkhuSamahitaThera LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhikkhu-samahita-a57a2b15 Info: http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Bhikkhu_Samahita Google Maps & Earth: The Cypress Hermitage, Knuckles Forest Reserve, Central Sri Lanka: Coordinates North 7.415220, East 80.792573 https://plus.google.com/+WhatbuddhasaidNet_Cypress_Hermitage/about https://www.google.lk/maps/@7.4148533,80.792462,297m/data=!3m1!1e3
