[Advayavada Study Plan – week 19] In Advayavada Buddhism, the Noble Eightfold Path is, as explained before, fully personalized: it is firmly based on what we increasingly know about ourselves and our world, and trusting our own intentions, feelings and conscience. Adherence to the familiar five precepts (not to kill, not to steal, sexual restraint,Continue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 19”
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Advayavada Study Plan – week 18
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 18] In Secular Buddhism generally, firmly bearing in mind the impermanence and changeability of everything (see week 14) and the selflessness and emptiness (and, therefore, finitude) of all things and beings (see week 15), the focus is on the correct interpretation and realization of the historical Buddha’s so-called ‘four nobleContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 18”
Advayavada Study Plan – week 17
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 17] Non-liberated human beings are essentially prone to existential suffering (see week 16) because they wrongly strive after and try to hold on to things, concepts and situations which they believe to be permanent, but are not. Their mistaken view of things is produced by a thirst, craving or clingingContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 17”
Advayavada Study Plan – week 16
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 16] As already asserted, in Advayavada Buddhism the Path reflects the Whole and does not tell you what to do or believe. The purpose of this ongoing and autonomous Advayavada Study Plan (ASP), which is based on the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, is that we study (and debate in aContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 16”
Advayavada Buddhism Explained
question You speak of progress but make little mention of evolution. Is the Fourth Sign of Being you speak of not evolution? answer Evolution is an ontological fact and progress is an epistemological concept. What we say in Advayavada Buddhism is that human beings experience as progress what accords with the overall course of Nature,Continue reading “Advayavada Buddhism Explained”
Advayavada Study Plan – week 15
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 15] As already asserted, in Advayavada Buddhism the Path reflects the Whole and does not tell you what to do or believe, but invites us all to make the very best of our own lives by attuning as best as possible with wondrous overall existence advancing over time now inContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 15”
Adayavada Study Plan – week 14
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 14] In Advayavada Buddhism the Path reflects the Whole. It does not tell you what to do or believe, but invites us all to make the very best of our own lives by attuning as best as possible with wondrous overall existence advancing over time now in its manifest direction.Continue reading “Adayavada Study Plan – week 14”
Advayavada Study Plan – week 13
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 13] As already explained, in Advayavada Buddhism the Path reflects the Whole: it does not tell you what to do or believe, but invites us all to make the very best of our own lives by attuning as best as possible, by means of our personalized Noble Eightfold Path, withContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 13”
Advayavada Study Plan – week 12
[Advayavada Study Plan – week 12] As already explained, in Advayavada Buddhism the Path reflects the Whole: it does not tell you what to do or believe, but invites us all to make the very best of our own lives by attuning as best as possible, by means of our personalized Noble Eightfold Path, withContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 12”
We Don’t Understand Ourselves — Great Middle Way
From the Buddhist point of view our suffering originates from the limitations of our ordinary, unenlightened mind. Firstly, we are unaware of the basic truths of existence. Through ignorance, we have misunderstood our true nature and the nature of reality. Secondly, confused and easily agitated, we are unable to control our minds. We do not […]Continue reading “We Don’t Understand Ourselves — Great Middle Way”
