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18 Feb 2019, 9:59 am
In psychoanalysis one may be asked to close one’s eyes, while in Buddhism one’s eyes should remain open, focused downward (partly to avoid falling asleep!). [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 2:49 pm
Buddhism is generally seen as associated with non-violence and peace. [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 2:02 pm
Buddhism is generally seen as associated with non-violence and peace. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 7:15 am
Bibliographies with some family resemblance to the above list (in this instance, more or less ‘non-Western’ or non-Eurocentric religious and philosophical traditions and worldviews):Buddhism Classical Chinese WorldviewsIndic/PhilosophyThe Jain TraditionSufism (a mystical Islamic tradition) Theology and Philosophy in Islamic TraditionsPlease note: I do not consider the Islamic worldview to be ‘non-Western,’ but have included it here for several reasons, including the… [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 6:00 am
Bibliographies with some family resemblance to the above list (in this instance, more or less ‘non-Western’ or non-Eurocentric religious and philosophical traditions and worldviews): Buddhism Classical Chinese Worldviews Indic/Philosophy The Jain Tradition Sufism (a mystical Islamic tradition) Theology and Philosophy in Islamic Traditions Please note: I do not consider the Islamic worldview to be ‘non-Western,’ but have included it here for several reasons, including… [read post]
3 Jan 2019, 3:49 pm
”As for the question of why and how entire societies or even civilizations might be “sick” in more than a metaphorical sense (although I would think even a descriptive metaphorical reference is damning), I have the audacity—or is it temerity—to recommend (this is not a complete inventory) works from the philosophical traditions of Daoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism; writings penned by Rousseau, Tolstoy and Simone Weil; the young Gandhi’s scathing tract… [read post]
23 Dec 2018, 7:28 am
In my own case, Marxist beliefs exist alongside (perhaps uneasily, sometimes in tension or even contradiction with) elements from other therapeutic worldviews and philosophies, including those of Buddhism and psychoanalytic psychology, as well as one political philosophy: Liberalism! [read post]
23 Dec 2018, 6:00 am
In my own case, Marxist beliefs exist alongside (perhaps uneasily, sometimes in tension or even contradiction with) elements from other therapeutic worldviews and philosophies, including those of Buddhism and psychoanalytic psychology, as well as one political philosophy: Liberalism! [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 12:06 pm
While Buddhism is the majority religion, the Rohingya represent the highest percentage of Muslims within this country, as their population was estimated at around one million in 2017 (thus constituting approximately 2% of the state’s total population). [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 2:19 pm
” Whatever the species of Vaishnavism of his family and native Gujarat, Gandhi freely borrowed, adopted, and attempted assiduously to integrate into his worldview and social and political activism a medley of religious ideas and spiritual practices, a fine sample of which is provided by Bilgrami:“… Advaita-Vedantin ideas; Bhakti ideals of devotion* (ideals through which he read his beloved Bhagavad Gita and made it, as he himself would say, his constant moral guide [or his … [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 6:45 am
" That shit sticks.I googled "shit sticks" in an effort to get to the most common phrase about shit sticking, but I ended up at a Wikipedia article, "Shit stick":Shit stick means "a thin stake or stick used instead of toilet paper" and was a historical item of material culture introduced through Chinese Buddhism and Japanese Buddhism. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:19 pm
The repercussions have been severe and overtaken by the mass democratic mobilizations that have emerged around both the blasphemy law and governmental suggestions that it might be softened for infractions against Islam (no one speaks of the effects of blaspheming or insulting Christianity, Baha'i, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism or the like), and popular action against government officials who support this change in the blasphemy laws (or defend the Christian peasant women condemned to… [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 2:21 pm
The so-called nāstika schools (sometimes referred to as the śramaṇa tradition) include Ājīvika, Jainism, Buddhism, and Lokāyata/Cārvāka. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 5:00 am
Chen relocated to Xinjiang from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, where he presided over China's harsh crackdowns on the Tibetan people and Tibetan Buddhism. [read post]
Underlining the Obvious: Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration’s Policy Toward China
4 Oct 2018, 8:05 pm
On the morning of 4 October 2018, Vice President Pence traveled to the offices of the Hudson Institute, a public policy think tank with a reputation as a politically conservative organization, to deliver a carefully designed Remarks on the Administration’s Policy Toward China. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 2:00 am
In every major spiritual and religious tradition—from Christianity to Buddhism to Sikhism to Islam to Hinduism—we find variations on the theme “Life only has real purpose when spent in service of others. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 2:00 am
In every major spiritual and religious tradition—from Christianity to Buddhism to Sikhism to Islam to Hinduism—we find variations on the theme “Life only has real purpose when spent in service of others. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:32 am
Gokhale has made it (in his 2015 book, Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry), that orthodox and heterodox Indic philosophical systems or schools* (save, perhaps, Mahāyāna Buddhism) can be aptly characterized in the main (thus in the form of a generalization) as minor variations on the ethical theme of “hedonistic egoism. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:15 am
Gokhale has made it (in his 2015 book, Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry), that orthodox and heterodox Indic philosophical systems or schools* (save, perhaps, Mahāyāna Buddhism) can be aptly characterized in the main (thus in the form of a generalization) as minor variations on the ethical theme of “hedonistic egoism. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:15 am
Gokhale has made it (in his 2015 book, Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry), that orthodox and heterodox Indic philosophical systems or schools* (save, perhaps, Mahāyāna Buddhism) can be aptly characterized in the main (thus in the form of a generalization) as minor variations on the ethical theme of “hedonistic egoism. [read post]
