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The Four Noble Truths: beginnings
This marks the beginning of a new series of posts on a post-traditional approach to Buddhism. This initial offering is on the Four Noble Truths. I realised that I needed to get to grips once again with...
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The Eightfold Path: the Fourth Truth
The Eightfold Path The Eightfold path is the Fourth Truth and it features eight arenas of practice. They are all inter-related. They can be followed sequentially if one is so inclined, although each...
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Eightfold Path – Right Speech (1)
‘Buddhist ethics are based on the notion of harmony’ Introduction; intent and view Falsification and fabrication lie at the heart of wrong speech. Together with destructiveness and cruelty they make...
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The Eightfold Path: Right livelihood (1)
In this blog post I explore right livelihood in its typical Buddhist format, and then I look at the relationship between affecting change on our lives and dealing with life circumstances as they are,...
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The Eightfold Path: Right Livelihood (2)
Looking at our working lives As most of us do not work in the aforementioned unethical trades, the question of right livelihood will primarily concern the way we work. It can be useful to start by...
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Post-Traditional Buddhism: the quiet revolution?
(This is part one of an article on Post-Traditional Buddhism written for the Elephant Journal. Part.2 can be found here: Big Up Post-Traditional Buddhism) Intro to the act Imagine a giant golden Buddha...
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Considering enlightenment: a project in reconfiguration (1)
The following piece was written three years back. In many ways, it represents what this site began as: an opportunity to share my thinking, literally, my thinking out loud. I wrote this piece as an...
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Considering enlightenment: a project in reconfiguration (2)
The Wording of the Thing Buddhism is full of abstractions, terms that lend themselves to multiple translations, conceptual reformulations and biases. Ridding ourselves of the temptation to indulge in...
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Insights through Disruption: Buddhemes and Charism
Insight through questioning: assumptions & buddhemes To question is to disrupt. To challenge what is deemed as normal is to initiate dissention. Questioning pre-established positions, assumed...
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