Introduction The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha’s Noble Truths, and he described it as the way that…
I wanted to draw attention to a strange myopia that affects many people who comment on the Buddha's teachings about…
Someone asked me the other day whether there was a contradiction between the Buddha saying that "life is suffering" and…
The Third Noble Truth comes directly from the Second one: The end of suffering comes with the end of clinging.…
The Second Noble Truth describes the principal cause of suffering. It is clinging. . . to anything at all. The…
The Four Noble Truths are the most fundamental teaching of the Buddha. Deceptively simple, they actually provide a profound explanation…
One of the indisputable realities about being human is that we all have weaknesses. No one escapes this. Some of…
I used to be confused about why the third truth came before the fourth. And I realize now that if…
Whoa! Really? There's an end to suffering? An end to our pain? Our inner conflicts? Yes there is. Sadly some…
When I first read the second truth, I had goose bumps, because I knew my life was heading in the…