Birth and Death 5
Dharma
There is a simple way to become a buddha… When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful
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Birth and Death 4
This birth and death is the life of buddha. If you try to exclude it you will lose the life of buddha. If you cling to it, trying to remain
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Birth and Death 3
It is a mistake to suppose that birth turns into death. Birth is a phase that is an entire period of itself, with its own past and future. For this
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Birth and Death 2
Those who want to be free from birth and death should understand these words… If you search for buddha outside birth and death, it will be like trying to go
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Birth and Death 1
Because a buddha is in birth and death, there is no birth and death. It is said also… Because a buddha is not in birth and death, a buddha is
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The Three Poisons, Institutionalized, by David R Loy
…our present economic system institutionalizes greed, our militarism institutionalizes ill will, and the corporate media institutionalize delusion. The Buddha didn’t say much about evil, but he spoke often about what
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Buddhism in the West, by Maria Reis Habito, Part 1
Does Buddhist spirituality in the West lead to self-indulgence, rather than self-realization? “I am not religious, but I’m spiritual”. This is a commonly heard statement, especially among younger people, many of
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Buddhism for a Post-Axial Age, Review of David Loy’s A New Buddhist Path, Part 4
This post concludes Ruben Habito’s review of A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution and Ethics in the Modern World by David Loy. Click to read Part 1, Part 2 and
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Buddhism for a Post-Axial Age, Review of David Loy’s A New Buddhist Path, Part 3
…in seeing through and overcoming the delusion of a sense of self as separate from the natural world, provides a key toward addressing and overcoming the roots of our ecologic
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Buddhism for a Post-Axial Age, Review of David Loy’s A New Buddhist Path, Part 2
Loy forges a middle way between…a “transcendentalist” view that looks to Buddhism for an escape from the toils and troubles of this world… and an “immanentist” view that regards Buddhism
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