Is time real, or is change just a kind of optical illusion resting on a deeper unchanging reality? As finite creatures, with death hovering just out of our sight, the true nature of time haunts all ...

The words of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as Buddha, have resonated through the centuries, offering profound insights into the human experience. Among his many teachings, one quote stands out as ...

Different world religions have their own explanations of human suffering and social disorder. The Buddha, for example, taught that the world as we know it is an illusion. We only imagine that we and ...

In my previous post, I discussed the Buddha’s solution to suffering: the Middle Way, Four Noble Truths, and Eightfold Path. Two early insights that led the Buddha to enlightenment are the Middle Way ...

Buddhism and meditation seem mysterious and distant to many in the Western world evoking images of far-off monasteries and extraordinary states of mind. But even though the Eastern religion teaches ...

For Ryushun Kusanagi, Buddhism is more than a religion, as it can serve as a philosophy of life to cope with modern daily life. On the other side of the screen appears a Buddhist monk. He appears in ...