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Otogawa. The banquet was vegetarian, as both he and his wife
were vegetarian. When ex-president Bill Clinton visited him while
he was ill, he took a break from his meeting to chant a Buddhist The pursuits of science
sutra, and he told Clinton that chanting Buddhist sutras were his must not be banned by
Emerging
breakfast and dinner. His counterpart Bill Gates wrote in his diaries, religious authorities.
“All this while I thought Jobs’ faith in Buddhism is a kind of play, Absolute banning will
a kind of joke, now only have I realised that Jobs has got more Ethics and immediately obstruct
spiritual wealth than me. Looks like I also have to enter this play, to
sample it, to play it well and to enrich my spiritual life.” Policy Issues in human imagination and
scientific development,

In summation, three major factors influenced Jobs’s life. The Biotechnologyy and impedes the growth of
negative and upward condition that influenced Jobs when he was knowledge among humans.
young was a fate that he could not alter. Many people in those
circumstances might have succumbed to that fate, but not Jobs. He
was able to make use of his good karma-vipaka to explore a path for
himself. Fortunately in his exploration he encountered Buddhism,
which eventually had a great impact on his life. One may say that Hopes and Fear
while Zen changed Jobs, Jobs made use of Zen to change the world.
The theme of this conference “Delivering the Hopes of the
21 century” aptly describes the feelings and perceptions of
st
many players in the biotechnology industry. To the transnational
(Originally published in Voice of Buddhism, Dec 2011, Vol.51)
corporations (TNC) involved in the pharmaceutical, medical,
agricultural, aquaculture, food, and related industries, biotechnology
offers opportunities and hopes for greater exploitation and control
over the scarce resources on earth, and hence bigger monetary
returns and profits. Entrepreneurs and economists who are now
busy identifying and developing biotech-based industry clusters
see biotechnology as a means of generating economic growth. To
scientists, medical practitioners and researchers, biotechnology
promises the hope of a breakthrough in new frontiers in science.
To ordinary people, biotechnology is the magic wand that would
prolong their lives, improve human traits, rid them of diseases,
and make them superhuman. Even lawyers and ethicists find

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