Category: Buddhism
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Innate Goodness
The paragraph below is quoted from an interview with Jack Kornfield, popular advocate and teacher on living a spiritual life. “Freud says, ‘Culture has to … erect barriers against the aggressive instincts of men … To love one’s neighbor as oneself is … completely at variance with original human nature ….’ From a Buddhist perspective,…
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Why Is There Anything?
I am thinking about the functions of religion. What does organized religion give to people that drives them to suspend reason. What is the nature of man that religion exists? I conclude that people need guided ceremony. And they need prayer: something to offer consolation in times of despair and celebration in times of joy.…
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From Mud, the Lotus
Out of the Mud Comes the Lotus “May all that have life be delivered from suffering” Gautama Buddha “Is it possible to conquer all suffering? Is that conquest even a rational idea?” Marvin Chester The foundational structure of Buddhism is enunciated in THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS: The world is full of suffering (dukkha). Suffering is…