Four Noble Truths

Four Noble Truths

Aug 20, 2023

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” A man named Socrates said that long, long ago. Do you believe it? That we diminish ourselves to the degree that we are apathetic about the truth, or that unconscious biases dictate how we see the world, or that we have a habit of confusing appearances with reality? …
Voyage to Aliveness: The Buddha’s Crooked Path

Nov 15, 2020

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Late in Siddhartha Gautama’s ministry, around 2500 years ago, when India was on fire with his liberating message, people would come to him asking NOT who are you? NOT what’s your name, your origin, your ancestry? Not that, but this: WHAT are you? What species do you represent? Are you an angel? Are you a God? To what order of being do…