Buddhist Methodology and Life Patterns

End of life: the Buddhist view.

Global Life Patterns: A Methodology for Designing a Personal Global Life

In this paper, we propose the Global Life Patterns, a methodology to support people to maintain individuality and design their own actions in respect to the “globalizing” society – a Global Life. Today, globalization requires each person to maintain individuality in respect to Globalization. Because methods to acquire such ability are tacit, a clarified methodology to live a Global Life is need...

Study on Sustainable Operation in Traditional Industry: Application of Buddhist Systems Methodology (BSM) and Statistical Analysis

Under the trend of globalization and advancement of information technology, the operational patterns and industrial environments have changed, hence, traditional industries are facing the impact of the new era. Sustainable operation thus becomes their priority concern. This study treated consumers of traditional industries as subjects, and Buddhist Systems Methodology (BSM) and the quantitative...

Buddhist Mind and Matter

Classic Buddhist thought understands the mind as arising in dependence on the body. This causal dependence may be fashioned as a kind of “Buddhist materialism”. However, this should not be confused with any variety of scientific materialism, in which ontological and/or causal reductions of mind to brain affirm matter as the fundamental entity or property. Buddhist materialism, in contrast, is a...

Life Patterns

In this thesis I develop and evaluate computational methods for extracting life’s patterns from wearable sensor data. Life patterns are the reoccurring events in daily behavior, such as those induced by the regular cycle of night and day, weekdays and weekends, work and play, eating and sleeping. My hypothesis is that since a “raw, low-level” wearable sensor stream is intimately connected to th...