"to focus on the immaterial instead of the material." "the Eastern and Western perspectives are starting to become one" I don't know if Buddhism assumes a mat

"to focus on the immaterial instead of the material." "the Eastern and Western perspectives are starting to become one" I don't know if Buddhism assumes a material world, but Western world's assumption of a material world goes back to Newton who defined nature to be physical, that is, material. I think that if we are living in definitional and not material world our current definition of the "spiritual" and "immaterial" breaks down. http://matterandreality.wordpress.com/ http://matterandreality.wordpress.com/