4 Science and Aerospace Professionals Discuss Buddhism and Space
Buddhability
SGI-USA
4.9 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this special Buddhability episode, we sit down with four science and aerospace professionals, speaking as private citizens, to discuss the relationship between Buddhism and space. They share perspectives on Buddhism humanism in space exploration, Buddhist theory and space science, and the eternity of life.
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Resources:
Space and Eternal Life: A dialogue between Chandra Wickramasinghe and Daisaku Ikeda, p. 219
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, pp. 113-12
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford, and this is bootability. |
| 0:08.3 | The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us. |
| 0:25.4 | Today, we've got a very special episode. |
| 0:34.5 | Rather than our typical episode, I got to sit down with four scientists and aerospace professionals to discuss Buddhism and space. |
| 0:39.2 | Each joined me as a private citizen to share their incredible perspectives on the relationship between Buddhism and space. Each joined me as a private citizen to share their incredible perspectives on the relationship between Buddhism and space. As I share in the episode quite a few times, |
| 0:45.8 | I've always been someone who feels overwhelmed and even stressed by the vastness of space. |
| 0:51.7 | The unknowns of the universe freak me out. But this conversation totally |
| 0:58.1 | shifted my perspective. Since our call, I've been regularly reflecting with awe and appreciation for |
| 1:04.7 | the universe. I'm starting to see the poetic spirit that's needed to look up to the stars and think about space. |
| 1:12.6 | Okay, enough of my gushing. |
| 1:15.0 | I hope that whatever your relationship is to Buddhism, science, and space, |
| 1:19.5 | that you walk away with some fresh perspectives and appreciation for life. |
| 1:33.9 | Welcome everyone to Budability. |
| 1:39.0 | We have a very special episode today for anybody that's watching the version on YouTube. |
| 1:39.5 | You can see instead of two faces, there are five. |
| 1:42.5 | So I have four really incredible guests today. We're |
| 1:46.4 | really diving into Buddhism, science, and space, and daily life. All of the folks here have |
| 1:52.9 | experience and work in the field of space and science. So I have shared with them. I am not a STEM |
| 2:00.3 | person, so I'm really excited to learn a lot more and kind of expand my horizons through dialogue with you guys. We all practice SGI nature and Buddhism. So when we're speaking today, we're really speaking from that framework. So just to keep that in mind. So as a way for all of you guys to just introduce yourselves, I was thinking each |
| 2:18.4 | of you can just tell me a little bit about who you are. And then as a way to kind of discuss the work |
| 2:23.9 | that you do, just share how your Buddhist practice really comes to your work and your daily life. |
| 2:29.8 | So maybe we can start with tea if you want to kick us off. |
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