Tag: Buddhism

Knowledge, understanding and absorption

Pariyatti, Patipatti, Pativedha. Three Pali words that could be translated as Theory, Practice and Insight. I find that these three words can be essential in examining our practice and understanding what we are doing with out lives. And it would…

Politics in Buddhism

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While there really are no politics in Buddhism, we each still have a responsibility and a blessing to be able to vote for the best candidates. So how does one determine which one to vote for, Republican or Democrat. And…

The unanswerable questions

The fourteen unanswerable questions (Avyakrta in Sanskrit), in Buddhism, refers to fourteen common philosophical questions that Buddha refused to answer, according to Buddhist Sanskrit texts. Pali texts give only ten. Questions concerning the existence of the world in time: 1.…

The fun in being Buddhist

So often I read articles and Blogs by others, and I see that Buddhism can seem extremely negative, even depressing. And I’m sure that a lot of my articles could be looked at in the same manner. So much talk…