Concepts
10 posts
- 1
The Four Noble Truths - Understanding Suffering and Its End
The foundational teaching of the Buddha on the nature of suffering
- 2
The Eightfold Path - Eight Steps to the End of Suffering
The Buddha's practical guide to awakening through wisdom, ethics, and mental training
- 3
The Middle Way - Beyond Extremes
The Buddha's path of balance between indulgence and self-denial
- 4
Impermanence - Everything Changes
The Buddhist teaching on the ever-changing nature of all phenomena
- 5
Non-Self - There Is No Fixed 'I'
The Buddha's radical insight into the nature of personal identity
- 6
Dependent Origination - Everything Is Connected
The Buddha's profound insight into the interdependent nature of all phenomena
- 7
The Twelve Links - The Buddha Asked Backwards
The three-lifetime reading of dependent origination, the four modes of the chain that Abhidharma already distinguished, and the question the suttas actually record. How forward observation, reverse observation, and the cessation sequence got merged, and what the difference changes in practice.
- 8
Emptiness - The Wisdom of No Fixed Essence
Understanding sunyata, the Buddhist teaching that nothing has an independent, unchanging core
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Karma - The Law of Intentional Action
How deliberate actions shape our experience and our future
- 10
Yogacara - The Mind the Buddha Hesitated to Teach
Yogacara called the deepest layer of mind the ālaya consciousness. Why the Saṁdhinirmocana Sutra held it back from ordinary people and why the Buddha first hesitated to teach at all meet in a single word. The eight consciousnesses, seeds and perfuming, a mind that flows like a torrent, the manas that grasps it as self, the dream and the river of pus, the three natures, Wonch'ŭk and Wonhyo, and the point where consciousness turns into wisdom.