The New Physics and Cosmology edited by Arthur Zajonc

It took me a long time to plough through this book which is only 222 pages long. The subtitle is "Dialogues with the Dalai Lama" and it is the record of a Mind and Life conference held in Dharamsala, India in 1997 with the Dalai Lama and several physicists. The goal was to compare Buddhist philosophy with philosophies emerging (controversially) from the study of quantum mechanics. This is a subject dear to my heart but I really only bought the book because it was being remaindered and was therefore cheap. It was also turgid, but I stuck to it. Since the science is difficult and the philosophy is all over the place, the best I can do for you is to pull a couple of quotes:

Zajonc, an Amherst College physics professor, writes, "I could not help noticing the correspondence between the view of the Dalai Lama and, for example, the 'eternal, fractal, inflationary universe(s)' being advanced by contemporary astrophysicists...."

Referring to participant Tu Weiming, who is Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Zajonc says, "What he and others seem to be pointing toward is the possibility of overcoming the delusion of consciousness that places us with our thoughts and feelings over and against, and forever separated from, the rest of the natural world. ... The subtleties of quantum entanglement and observation begin to sound like part of a mature Buddhist philosophy."

Given the fact that outcomes in quantum mechanics are influenced by the role of the observer, Piet Hut, professor of astrophysics at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, says "...we are moving from a science of objectivity to a science that includes subjectivity, as well as objectivity."

But my favorite quote was a thought lifted from Danish physicist Niels Bohr. "He said that a simple truth is a truth where the opposite is not true. A deep truth is a truth where the opposite is also true."