Skip to content

Index
home
About
Videos
Counselling
Contact

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Index

An introduction to independent Buddhism

Book publication:
ADVANCED BUDDHIST METAPHYSICS -
Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

Basics

What is Buddhism ?

Becoming a Buddhist

Basic perspective required

Religious jargon

What’s the point of it all ?

Method
The Buddhistic method: start thinking for yourself

The mistaken approach to Buddhism made by academics

What can your ordinary thinking mind tell you about how to go about spiritual enlightenment ?

Key ideas
Mystical vs spiritual

The quest for metaphysical insight, vs the idea of human perfectibility: a first look

Philosophy
The Perpetual Emptiness of Academic Philosophy, and its

strange inability to address the one issue that matters

Metaphysics

What is metaphysics ? The one and only meaningful definition, and why traditional academic philosophy is unlikely ever to embrace it

Starting out in metaphysics: radical questioning

The ‘why is there something rather than nothing ?’ question

Enlightenment
Enlightenment, in a few words

Enlightenment: a conceptual introduction

Spiritual enlightenment is not about ‘permanent non-dual awareness’, or anything remotely like it

Critical studies

What the Buddha Taught: Walpola Rahula & the Buddha’s example

Beyond the Ultimate: the impossible proposition at the core of Meister Eckhart’s unique teaching, and why he remains so consistently misunderstood

Zen Buddhism, Satori, Enlightenment & Truth

Krishnamurti explained: a critical study
Psychotherapy, psychological health, & self-fulfilment: a Buddhist Perspective

Spiritual Metaphysics: Elementary Studies

Introduction to Spiritual Metaphysics

Our basic spiritual predicament outlined in the simplest possible non-religious terms

Primordial existential questioning

‘Knowing/apprehending’ as the most basic possible mode of existence

How does it help to know that ‘knowing’ is our most basic possible existential state ?

More articles available on Medium.com

Buddhist counselling,

mentoring and life coaching

Follow Us

Facebook
Instagram

© 2024 the Independent Buddhist • Built with GeneratePress

Web Analytics Made Easy - Statcounter