Buddhismis a path of teaching and practice. Buddhist practices such as meditation are means of changing oneself in order to develop the qualities of awareness‚ kindness‚ and wisdom. The experience developed within the Buddhist tradition over thousands of years has created an incomparable resource...
In Buddhism, Krishna is often associated with Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig, a bodhisattva who embodies compassion and understanding. Buddhist monks sometimes chant mantras dedicated to him while meditating or performing religious ceremonies. In Jainism too, Krishna plays an important role as a teacher wh...
And I think to some extent, , traditional forms of mysticism like Tibetan Buddhism made a, a laudable attempt to grapple with that and to describe it in texts like the Tibetan Book of the Dead. All of that having been said, and going back to our earlier discussion about parapsychology ...
Why is Buddhism a religion? Buddhism is one of the world's largest religions and originated 2,500 years ago in India. Buddhists believe thatthe human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirva...
The Kagyu tradition is the second oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism after the Nyingma tradition. The Kagyu and Nyingma have been very close both in terms of lineage and historical connection, mutually influencing each other’s traditions and practices. The Kagyu tradition however, belongs to ...
I argued in April that that critique did not apply to a modern eudaimonist Buddhism that naturalizes karma. Thompson replied that it does, on the ground that naturalized, probabilistic, or this-worldly karma was “incongruent” with karma’s “traditional meaning and function”. Thompson puts ...
“postmodernism” to refer to a set of ideas, widely held among academics in the past 30 years, which takes inspiration from Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, and denies the worth of claims to truth. One will frequently find postmodernists (John Caputo is one of the more explicit about ...
believes that there was a balance maintained and regulated by the Tao. Taoism is attributed to Lao Tzu, who developed and spread the idea of Taoism among the rural areas of China. While Taoism’s following declined in favor of Confucianism and Buddhism, the practice still exists to this day...
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