Jacobson, Nolan Pliny.  “Buddhism and Whitehead on the Art of Living."  In Asian Studies Series.  Buffalo: Suny, 1976.

Abstract

Both Buddhism and Whitehead find the foundations of the world in aesthetic experience, rather than, as with Kant and almost all western philosophers, in the cognitive or conceptive experience.  The ultimate aim of life, according to Buddhism and Whitehead, is found in the passing moment in the awakening of the live creature to more of the flow of quality in the fullness of existence.  Reason finds its function in freeing life from its compulsions and fixations, vivifying original centers of experience where men and women in the passing moment are deeply, joyfully, and memorably alive.  [Abstract from The Philosopher’s Index]