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I took refuge, aka became a Buddhist, in August 2011. I had been reading about Buddhism for over a decade before that. I also started writing about Buddhism on this blog way before I became an official Buddhist.

Intention and Karma

The doctrine of karma is not as easy as ‘do good and you will receive good’. But it also doesn’t mean ‘think good thoughts and your will get a good life’. The truth is – it means both and neither. I’ll illustrate with the help of some quotes from the Buddha: 349. For a person [...]

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Attachment and addiction – about spiritual hierarchy

My post yesterday explored addiction – specifically addiction to electronics. Addiction is any habit that can’t be stopped easily. Some addictions are chemically based. Addiction to coffee, chocolate and cigarettes for instance are hard to break habits because the brain has changed in response to those substances. This is true even after a person has [...]

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In the sky there is no distinction of 'East' and 'West'…

“Apparent distinctions among things exist only in our minds. For example, in the sky there is no distinction of east and west. People create such distinctions and then believe them to be true. We do the same in everyday life- making distinctions, such as “us” and “them,” where none exist and believe them to be [...]

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Spiritual Growth and Sunyata

I explained the difference and convergence of Sunyata and Nirvana yesterday. Today I want to go into what that means for every day spirituality. This is where the Buddhist tradition offers a variety of responses. There are those who feel that one first has to practice virtue, live up to the ideals of the many [...]

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To my Buddhist (and semi-Buddhist) readers

I feel blessed to already have so many readers and comments that I have to explain my basic attitude to blogging and spirituality not just to theosophists, but to (Western) Buddhists as well. First off: my basic concern is the pursuit of wisdom, not knowledge. This is what I also tried to say in my [...]

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