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Buddhist Symmetry

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How a multi-perspective approach to teaching enhances young thinkers

I am working on an
introspective approach of Buddhist concepts through
real interaction with nature to incorporate into teaching for western identified
children in European based education, which moves towards a
transformative consensus of a group focusing on the object's influence on
the individual (transformation-ism) in comparison to the Platonic approach of
the individual's influence over an object (dual-ism). Symmetry utilized in
Buddhism starting from two parts and moving towards a larger sample to
provide multi-perspectives, is quite distinct from dualism employed since
Plato that limits the process to two parts (pro & con). Buddhism is inspired
from nature; walking in an ecosystem offers a 360º view with the naked eye

tactile and spatial

to capture unique Buddhist Tibetans invented the
perspectives available for sharing as a group. mandala as an artistic structure to focus the mind for meditation in order to elevate
humanity’s consciousness from a spiral effect of expansion. The mind moves around the painting
until it reaches the centre point for maximum concentration, replica of the cosmic orbits around the
Milky Way. Buddhist philosophy emphasises the middle road to maintain equilibrium; avoiding the
extremes. Buddhist philosophy builds on its predecessor yoga; to transcend the limits of the body
with a striving mind and thus opening up a channel for a new consciousness.

The centre image promotes balance

like the axis of a planet.

Buddhism strives for non- The circular theory in Buddhism (sphere and spiral) is a

attachment to a given outcome. continuum fixed on an axis for stability of a project whether for individuals or groups; it expands and is
dynamic as new knowledge is incorporated with movement in time and space. Sharing knowledge eventually
Balancing perspectives from symmetry opens channels for a flexible discussion which seeks more leads to innovation and a universal value that the sum of parts is greater than any individual part. Buddhist
than two sides of an argument and thus statistically is healthy in determining a true experiment philosophy in society is like mosaic or collage art; the beauty of the whole process of a growing lotus from a
in democracy. Buddhist philosophy has a long tradition of symmetrical imagery based on nature-- seed in the mud, nourished by water, and seeking sunlight on the surface to bloom is the essence of
-e.g. lotus flower petals. Rose mathematics is a close approximate to the lotus flower symmetry, evolutionary consciousness (Sanskrit: bhur, bwah swah). The sum is exponential and creative as compared to
which starts from two petals and can reach infinity contributing to the imagination one thinker persuading others without incorporation of ideas. The combination of Buddhist and Platonic
philosophies for teaching in a democratic society takes into account all levels of base knowledge as valid and
necessary for both the sciences and part of the whole evolutionary process of the human consciousness; perhaps leading to ethical modes of
behaviour from a multi-perspective approach to the thinking process;

humanities to go beyond the static. highlighting tolerance.

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