We can be physically in this world, but mentally trapped in a world of stories. When we get attached to stories in our mind, we drift away from reality. It’s through this drifting that Fear surfaces. The mind keeps building the story, adding twists, turns and doubts, pulling us further away from reality. The further away from reality we get, the stronger our Fear grows.
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Archive for December, 2008
Buddhism teaches us about no self, no other. It teaches us that the “I” thing we grasp isn’t real. It opens us to the world of interconnectedness and interrelatedness. That’s all well and good but the thing is, we’re here now.
Continue reading ‘Your Thoughts: A Buddhist Response to the Economic Crisis’
And what, monks, is the Middle Way realized by the Thus-Come-One, which gives vision and understanding, which leads to calm, penetration, enlightenment, to Nirvana?Continue reading ‘What Is The Middle Way?’
It is just this Noble Eightfold Path, namely: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. – The Buddha, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta
