Reducing the extent to which we suffer depends upon lessening feelings of anguish and unfulfilled desire. These are feelings which arise...

As is well known, Buddhism arrived in China, probably in the first century CE, and evolved gradually into the tradition that now we term...

When we are in a state of deep sleep we are not aware of anything. For most, if not all, of us we are only aware that we have ‘slept...

Let’s try a thought experiment. I am here and you are there. As it happens, I am in the UK and you, perhaps, are in the USA or in India,...

At the present moment in late 2020 the presence of Covid is making us anxious about our futures, fearful for the lives of those we love...

A question often asked is whether Buddhism is a religion or whether one can practice its methods in the absence of any belief in...

I want to pursue further the distinction between thought and our wider intelligence by looking at what Jiddhu Krishnamurti (K) called...

‘But before you think about something which you do not know, you must find out what thinking is, must you not?’ -Jiddhu Krishnamurti We...

In the previous post we looked at how primitive experience, and in particular sensation and perception, arose during the course of our...

We looked in the previous post at how the Buddhist analysis describes the arising of ignorance, the way that we mistake ourselves for a...

Buddhism emphasises how everything and every experience is dependent on other things and on other experiences. This is the idea of...

We have argued previously that from the Buddhist perspective the self-view is pervasive but ultimately illusory. Meditation helps us to...

The apparent link between biological and cultural evolution, as set out in the previous post, was identified by the philosopher Karl...

I believe that determining our collective identity can assist us to find solutions to our most pressing problems- environmental, social,...

We saw in a previous post how the view that we have of the world and of our self, the outer and the inner view, is transparent. We...

The debate about whether consciousness is reflexive, as discussed in last week’s post, is related to the fact that we experience an inner...

The Buddhist contribution to the role of selfhood in our lives appears originally to have been a purely pragmatic one. The historical...

Identity is an absorbing human problem, one that seems to fascinate us now more than ever. In the 1950s, thirty-seven English language...

I want to demonstrate how ideas based on a Buddhist approach to contentment and fulfilment are already a powerful force in contemporary...

In previous posts we began with the notion of identity and how what appears to be most intimate is our self. It is difficult to evade or...