A basic belief of Buddhism consists of the doctrine of Pratitya samutpada. It asserts that neither are the events of our life predetermined, nor do the take place at random. Rather, it states that the events in our life have, infact, no independent existence. It refuses to accept the not...
Or, maybe you are seeking a new religious or spiritual expression for your life and want to check out what different religions offer. Or, maybe you get the sense - as I and many others do - that the world is a big place with lots of people and belief systems, and we are a "global...
Indeed, the traditional accusation of Hinduism against Buddhism, that it eliminates morality (by ignoring caste), would be true with Robert Wright. And if Darwin were around today, and joined the mindfulness meditation movement, he might thank the Buddha for coming up with a way to address the...
(the absence of religious ideas) and continuing with fetishism, nature worship, and totemism (a system of belief involving the relationship of specific animals to clans), shamanism (a system of belief centring on the shaman, a religious personage having curative and psychic powers), ...