What are the criteria that qualify an act as good or bad? Buddhist ethics is not just ways of acting, But a way of being. A human being endowed with loving kindness, compassion, and wisdom will spontaneously act in an ethical way because he or she is good at hear
Read MoreBut Frederich Nietzsche statement is only half: Nobody has tried to make it complete. It looks complete, but Frederich Nietzsche was not aware that there are religions in the world that have no God, Yet even those religions man is not free. He was not aware of Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism - the most profound religions of all.
Read More" Do you think God will ever forgive me for my sins? " My friend had no idea at all how to respond; her training had left her completely unprepared for any spiritual questions. She had nothing to say; or she had to hide behind was her professional status as a doctor.
Read MoreIt is impossible to try and track every single thought you have to see if it is having a positive or negative influence on your emotional state. The thoughts that are most influential are those where you literally talk to yourself.
Read MoreAnd I am not saying be against sex, no. But let sex be more a subjective phenomenon than objective phenomenon. And that is the difference between sex and love. Love is subjective, sex is objective.
Read MoreYour being is beyond you. This means that you are made up of two parts: one is your outgoing face - your senses - your body, your mind, your ego. The ego is sum total of all of these; it reaches outwards.
Read MoreSuppose you buy a new car. However you regret your choice soon afterwards: engine sounds like a jet taking off and you just cannot get comfortable in the drivers seat. What do you do? giving the car back would be an admission of error ( you don't want that !) , and anyway, the dealer probably would not refund all the money.
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