What is enlightenment, really? Is it something we must attain, something to discover, or something already present, here and now? And what happens once you “get enlightened”? What is the experience of enlightenment like? There is a famous Zen teaching that offers profound answers to these questions. This teaching is not a scripture or some…
What does it take to have no fear of dying? Is there some insight (or experience) that can set you free not only from the fear of death – but from death itself? What would it even mean to be “free of death”?
Jiddu Krishnamurti saw through the illusions of the mind and revealed a path to direct perception of reality, to enlightenment…
Dependent Origination is Buddha’s deepest teaching into the nature of reality, of the self, and of the path to liberation (nirvana).
The Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism is, simply put, the path to nirvāṇa. It is the teaching put into practice. To walk this path all the way is to reach awakening and liberation.
To hear these four truths, the Buddha said, is already the first step on a path that one day WILL bring you to becoming an awakened one, a Buddha, yourself.
Anattā, which many people translate as ‘the theory of no-self’ should more rightly be translated as ‘the no-theory of self’. To understand this teaching means to completely transform your outlook on the world in a way that is difficult to describe in words.
