Advayavada Study Plan – week 10

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 10] 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 with wondrous overall existence advancing over time now inContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 10”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 9

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 9] 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, with wondrous overall existenceContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 9”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 8

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 8] As already explained, Advayavada Buddhism 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, with wondrous overall existence advancing over time nowContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 8”

The four noble truths — Zen Flash

Images magiques When we talk about Dhamma, although we may say a lot, it can usually be brought down to four things. They are simply to know suffering, to know the cause of suffering, to know the end of suffering and to know the path of practice leading to the end of suffering. This is […]Continue reading “The four noble truths — Zen Flash”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 7

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 7] 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 7”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 6

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 6] 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 6”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 5

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 5] In Secular Buddhism generally, firmly bearing in mind the impermanence and changeability of everything (see week 1) and the selflessness and emptiness (and, therefore, the finitude) of all things and beings (see week 2), the focus is on the correct interpretation and realization of the historical Buddha’s so-called ‘fourContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 5”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 4

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 4] Non-liberated human beings are essentially prone to existential suffering (see week 3) 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 4”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 3

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 3] 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 autonomous Advayavada Study Plan (ASP), which is based on the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, is that we study (and debate in a local group,Continue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 3”

Advayavada Study Plan – week 2

[Advayavada Study Plan – week 2] As already asserted, in Advayavada Buddhism the Path reflects the Whole and 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 nowContinue reading “Advayavada Study Plan – week 2”