The Island10d
Achieving an arduous task: Comparing philosophies
A COMPARISON OF BUDDHIST AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY’ Prof. Asoka Amaratunga is well known to the readers of The Island by his ...
NDTV16d
In Bhutan: A Priapic Obsession And Real Luxury In A 300-Year-Old Farmhouse In The World's Happiest Country
The 15th-century Buddhist saint, Drukpa Kunley—affectionately ... Perhaps he sees my dukkha as entirely novice, but his eyes also tell me that he understands—pain is pain, regardless of ...
Psychology Today27d
The False Choice
that this mispresents a basic tenet of Buddhism. The Buddha never distinguished between pain and suffering. The word he used, dukkha, is a Pali word that is best thought of as meaning ...
The Guardian Nigeria8d
Similarities between Igbo cosmology and Chinese Buddhism
Buddhist Karma and Cycles of Suffering In Buddhism, the cycle of suffering (dukkha) and repeated rebirth due to karma resembles the Igbo ọgbanje phenomenon. If a person accumulates negative ...
Timeslife on MSN28d
Vipassana – The Powerful Medicine for Detoxification
Rooted in ancient Buddhist traditions ... The technique unveils the truth of impermanence (Anicca), suffering (Dukkha), and ...
Lankaweb18d
‘How can we know the dancer from the dance?’ A comment on the recent dialogue about the anatta doctrine in Buddhism
There is a very good explanation that touches on this subject in Chapter III of his classic treatise on Buddhism ‘What the Buddha Taught’(1959) under the heading The Second Noble Truth: Samudaya: ‘The ...