Challenges facing Western Buddhism Traditionally, Buddhism has definitely emphasized personal responsibility for our own dukkha and awakening. This is, of course, utterly essential.

What I love about Buddhism is that it never loses focus on kindness and compassion as the practical goal of human life.

Buddhism identifies 26 unwholesome mental formations and four more that can be either wholesome or unwholesome. Individually and collectively, these afflictions can cause dukkha.

Dukkha, a central concept in Buddhism, is often translated as “suffering”, but its meaning encompasses a broad spectrum of human experiences and existential realities. The term captures the ...

Although in its early stages, Buddhism emphasized personal enlightenment and, if anything, withdrawal from the world, modern "engaged Buddhism" (aka "Buddhism 2.0") does anything but. And both ...

And the first of Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths is simply that dukkha exists; in fact, it pervades life (don’t despair, however: the remaining Three Truths speak to its amelioration).

I decided to compare The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism to the moral lessons found in fairy tales. The First Noble Truth tells us that life involves suffering (dukkha.) Daily mundane life can be ...

The central problem of existence for the Abrahamic faiths is sin, and the central problem of Buddhism is suffering (dukkha). Sin is caused by attachment to evil, and suffering is caused by ...