Buddhism for Beginners
Samuel AsuntoAn exploration of Buddhism in plain, straightforward language
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What Buddhism has taught me about firing my coworkers
“To study the Way of Enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”
— Dōgen, Shōbōgenzō, “Genjōkōan”
Next week I am going to fire 15 co-workers.
And I feel nothing.
No, that’s not quite right. I feel somet...
Would the Buddha punch a racist?
“As a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless heart toward all beings.”
— Buddha, Sutta Nipāta 1.8 (Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta)
Yesterday in the small English town where I live, I encountered a d...
Buddhism in difficult times – how mindfulness works against suffering
“Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-made. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, suffering follows… If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows.”
- Buddha, Dhammapada, verse...
The illusion of self-control (Buddhism’s Three Poisons, part 3)
“The deluded, with minds full of delusion, go about like the blind led by the blind.”
Buddha, Dhammapada verse 174
In the Buddhist teachings, greed, hatred and delusion are known as ‘the three poisons.’ These mind states are, according t...
Buddhism's Three Poisons, part 2: what hatred taught me
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law."
Buddha – Dhammapada, verse 5
The Buddha calls greed, hatred and delusion the Three Poisons. On an individual basis these m...
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