Closer To Truth’s Eastern Traditions and the Big Questions

Science & Philosophy
Producer: Getzels Gordon Productions & The Kuhn Foundation
Rights: Unlimited, 2/15/24 to 2/28/2026 (Live Linear Streaming available)
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101 – Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?

How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions, Hinduism and Shintoism address causality, consciousness, energies, God, ultimate reality? What is non-dualism? How is the world interconnected? How are metaphysics and morality related?

102: Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?

How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions and Hinduism address the essence of human sentience? What is consciousness? What is the self? What is qi? Do humans have souls or spirits? Are humans dualistic beings? Or pure souls/spirits?

103 – Eastern Traditions: Why are Suffering and Ritual Vital? 

How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions and Hinduism address the perennial problems of suffering, ethics, ritual and contemplative practices? Why is suffering so important in Buddhism? Why karma in Hinduism? Why systems of nature in Chinese traditions?

104 – Eastern Traditions: What are Ultimate Existence & Essence?

How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions and Hinduism address the ultimate essence of all things, the ground of being? What are transcendence, oneness, interconnectivity, ineffability? Compare Dao in Daoism to Brahman in Hinduism. Compare Wu in Daoism with Emptiness in Buddhism. Does God fit in?

105 – Eastern Traditions: What is Our Ultimate Future?

How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions and Hinduism address Final Things — eschatology — life after death and the ultimate transformation of the world? What are reincarnation and non-dual pure consciousness in Hinduism? What are rebirth and Nirvana in Buddhism?