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The first stage is just to become aware of the minds chatter, the movies that we play out in our mind and our emotional and bodily responses to them. To see these as just thoughts, acknowledge them and allow them to come and ago without attachment to them. Just this awareness, stepping back and...

The meditation and mindfulness practices followed today have their roots in buddhism and the teachings of the buddha, its only recently that we in the west have realised the benefits and incorporated the practice in to our own lives. The point being that if we had dismissed the teachings of the...

There is no huge jump in faith required to be a buddhist, when people asked Buddha what he was teaching, he said he teaches "the way things are." He said nobody should believe his teachings out of faith, but instead they should examine for themselves to see if they are true or not. I came to...

The article you posted again shows up this problem, the author has taken the fact that Pol Pot may have called himself a buddhist as proof that his actions were driven by his Buddhist beliefs. The actions of Pol Pot in murdering over 25,000 buddhist monks and destroying 95% of all buddhist...

Your statement underlines the problem with discussions around religion on this message board. There is always the tendency firstly to lump all religions in to the same pot, this then conveniently allows people to use the old testament version of god to support their argument that all religions...

I came in to contact with them once and to be honest the experience freaked me out. I was hanging around tottenham court road one day years ago waiting for my Wife and I found myself standing outside the scientology building. I had always been intrigued when I wandered past there and this time...