Buddha’s Greatest Teaching: Dependent Origination
Dependent Origination is Buddha’s deepest teaching into the nature of reality, of the self, and of the path to liberation (nirvana).
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How To Transform Anger | Buddhist Wisdom
It takes years for a tree to grow and bear fruit. It takes only a moment to cut that tree down. If wisdom, compassion, and peace are the trees we grow, anger is the ax that cuts them down.
Become Your True Self: Ken Wilber’s Integral Map For Self-Actualization
Becoming your true self might sound like a paradox, but it is the greatest achievement we can aspire to. Despite our potential, most of us never fully experience the true possibilities of human life. There’s much confusion around what it means to become or discover your true self. Different traditions, thinkers, and schools of thought…
Meister Eckhart: “Blessed are the poor in spirit…”
Christ says: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Matthew 5:3 ‘The kingdom of heaven’ is Christian lingo for the ultimate goal of spiritual life; it is the Christian equivalent of the Buddhist nirvāṇa. What could it mean that the goal of spirituality belongs to the poor in spirit? Shouldn’t…
Do You Really Exist? | Buddhist Philosophy
Of course you exist, don’t worry! If you didn’t, how would you know it? There wouldn’t exist anyone to know they don’t exist! To put your existence to doubt is to prove it. Only one who exists may wonder whether they do or not! Right? Right… Unless our premise is wrong. A wrong premise may…
You Walk The Path One Step At A Time
Each one of us is a path, a narrow path amidst a mist.
Nietzsche’s Deepest Idea – Eternal Recurrence
Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence (or eternal return) is a life-changing idea. It is the notion your whole life repeats forever. Can you bear it?