Tag: ask a buddhist

Although he was an important reformer of Indian society and its religious practices, the Buddha’s concerns addressed the individual, not the fixing of social systems.

Buddhism stands only as a three-legged stool: sila, ethical behavior; samatha, or concentration; and panna, or wisdom.

To answer this question accurately, one would have to research every Buddhist denomination and enclave in the world throughout Buddhism’s long history.

In short, yes. Agnostic Buddhism is very much a thing, but commonly called secular Buddhism.

What I’d like us to consider in this essay are two themes 1) according to the Dharma, we can only liberate ourselves, we can’t transform another person (and if we take a moment to consider the intractability of our own unskillful sankharas—habit formations—it becomes clear that our very best efforts to change ourselves yields slow results); 2) it’s possible that we aren’t raising anyone, but that we are simply in relationship.

A lot of Buddhist practitioners in the West don’t care to quibble about defining Buddhism as a religion or not.

The answer to your first question is easy: Yes, I meditate every day at least one hour, and I study Buddhism daily too.