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Whether you look upon Buddhism as a religion or as a way of life underpinned by a philosophy – which is my way – you will probably take the ‘Four Noble Truths’ and the ‘Noble Eightfold Path’ as the foundations of your practice. By way of analogy, the Noble Truths are often presented as the medical diagnosis of an…
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I look at the different schools of Buddhism and differentiate them partly by lines of accountability for stewardship of the dharma. The traditional schools rely heavily on the authority of institutional weight, the monastic code (vinaya) and lineage. The practitioner is accountable to thousands of years of precedent, and an honest enquirer can easily feel…
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I am a practitioner of my time. My natural home might be secular humanism, but I feel that it fails to honour any spiritual dimension to life and thus lacks true depth. Within the range of the various Buddhist schools or movements, there are multiple options available à la carte for an independent practitioner to…