PROCESS THOUGHT, PERFECT BEING THEISM, AND BUDDHISM
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In both Process Thought and in Buddhism’s anicca and anatta, all things flow, including in Process Thought a developing God co-creative with humans. This contrasts with an internally contradictory concept of Perfect Being God said to be both omniscient and immutable. In Buddhism the four brahmaviharas (“divine abidings”) namely loving kindness, sympathetic joy, compassion, and even-mindedness are processes of happiness allowing application to daily life. Applied to daily life, Process Thought means opportunity for transcending dualistic opposites of true and false. Transcending binary opposites such as true or false, one experiences life as Process, considering rebirth in a causal nexus, one experiences things as flowing and changing in kamma Process. The process of perception includes mind as one of the six senses with corresponding six fields, and in Process Relational Philosophy changing interconnectedness is a key element of all life.
Submitted: 27 March 2025
Accepted: 01 May 2025
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