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Buddhism and Buddha

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Buddhist Teaching

The eightfold path breaks down the aspects of life, and elaborates on how they are reached and what they are like. Most schools of Buddhist thought are not “dogmatic”, so you can find many texts with very broad opinions, even by modern authors. This is no break from Buddhist teaching. They refer to life in…
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Learning, Education, Enlightenment

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You Are All Things

Today we are talking about a concept most clearly described by the traditions of Buddhism but one that is indeed present in other traditions as well if you know where to look. The Buddhists call it Buddha nature. The primary concern in Buddhism was and is to find the genuine self, and their observations, as…
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Weight of Wyrd

Shall we go outside of Buddhist thought for more information on Buddha nature? The Norse had a concept called wyrd, pronounced weird, and it was the seed around which your personal life events or circumstances unfolded. In the concept of wyrd, it may seem there is a sort of fatalism. In fact, the word almost…
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Navigating Your Wyrd

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Flow of Chi

In wuxing everything is chi. What gives rise to the apparency of all the countless things is a process of filtering. Chi filtering down through one state into another, each point influencing the next one down the stream, but it’s all still one united stream of energy. In wuxing, insight, things and circumstances seem to…
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Epic Story Arc

For those of you who are literary types, can you insert a new character in a story just anywhere? It wouldn’t be as effective as it could be if you did. It wouldn’t make sense. Effectively, you break continuity and suspension of disbelief. Well, the material world is a harsh editor. It will not allow…

