Dalai Lama During this last entry in my series on Buddhism, I’ll discuss three final concepts within Buddhist philosophy. Anatta: The Concept of No Self While few of us would admit to personality variances of the same degree as the fabled Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, many of us do manifest different…
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Buddha 400 to 500 years before the birth of Jesus, a sage of an entirely different tradition was born in the foothills of the Himalayans, in what is now called Nepal. Called the Buddha (or the awakened one) by his followers, he grew up as the pampered son of a…
Non-dualism has become an increasingly popular spiritual idea in the West, but long before it bumped up against our shores it has been known in India as Advaita Vedanta. A Single Consciousness So, just what is Advaita Vedanta, or non-dualism? Essentially, it’s the belief that all souls exist within a…