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  • Four Noble Truths

    We are usually taught that the Four Noble Truths are Buddhism’s starting point – a compact diagnosis of the human condition outlining But I am not interested in defending their metaphysical status or rehearsing old doctrinal explanations. What matters to me is how they lead to the Eightfold Path, where the real work of ethics, meditation, and…

  • Three Marks of Existence

    A while ago, I asked an AI agent about Buddhism’s Three Marks of Existence. The answer started well: ‘a way of looking at reality exactly as it is, without illusions’, but then it seemed to go downhill rapidly. Perhaps I had hoped for an answer that could deepen my understanding of reality, how that reality…

  • Ethical Responsibility

    If karma is the observation that intention shapes action, and action shapes experience, then a further question naturally follows: how do we live in a way that supports clarity rather than confusion, ease rather than friction? The Buddha places this question at the very beginning of the Eightfold Path. Not as a moral demand, not…