Month: February 2021

Buddhists understand that you can hardly help another before you help yourself. But this isn’t referring to you gaining power or riches before you can help others or living in a way that you ignore others.

To live deeply, in a way that you become keenly aware of the precious nature of life, is to begin down the path of true peace and happiness.

Compassion is one of the most revered qualities in Buddhism and great compassion is a sign of a highly realized human being.

The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha’s teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.

Ideas of beauty are found in almost, if not every, culture. At almost every period in human history, these ideas have also shared many similarities.