The Buddha leads us to detachment – Christ leads us to love. Are these two teachings in conflict? And what do love and detachment even mean?
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Buddhist Emptiness Explained
Emptiness (śūnyatā / shunyata in Sanskrit) is the deepest, most life-changing, and most misunderstood Buddhist teachings. Learn its 5 meanings here.
Carl Jung & Buddhism On The Unconscious
Jungian psychology and the Yogācāra school of Buddhism both investigated the depths of the human psyche. Both proposed the existence of a hidden layer beneath our everyday conscious mind…
A Buddhist Story About No-Self (The Chariot Simile)
Who are you? What is your self? What is that which you call ‘I’ and who are ‘you’ to call it that? Inquiry into the nature of the self is at the core of the Buddha’s teaching – and it is the key to the Buddhist liberation from suffering. Here we explore an iconic Buddhist story about the (non-)self.
Heraclitus: Union of Opposites, Change & Logos
Is Heraclitus the greatest philosopher no one talks about? And what did this thinker mean when he said the world is made of fire?
The Four Noble Truths Of Buddhism Explained
To hear these four truths, the Buddha said, is already the first step on a path that one day WILL bring you to becoming an awakened one, a Buddha, yourself.
The Sacred & The Profane | Mircea Eliade
By identifying with a myth or an archetype, archaic man participates in ultimate reality and enters the plane of the gods, of life everlasting.