What concrete answers can you offer to the following question? It is a question that goes to the very heart of this blog:
"Can Buddhist practice be the one place where we are still allowed to open our eyes to the truths that shape our lives everyday? Can it teach us not to hide from the truth inside a cloud of incense, mindfully experiencing our bodily sensations?" (Tom Pepper, comment #28 on "
From Speculative Non-Buddhists..
Why have I reblogged this post?
Because I think that in Buddhism there are profound and important ways of looking at the human condition. The account of this condition found, in my experience, in the Pali Canon provides rich philosophical material – and I think this post (and parts of the blog it comes from more generally) are part of a serious attempt to answer the question of what we can do with this…