Philosophy

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig. The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. Take care not to feel towards the inhuman, as they feel towards men. Everything material soon disappears in the substance of the whole; and everything formal (causal) is very soon taken back into the universal reason; and the memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time. How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is your business to do the duty like a soldier in the assault on a town. How then, if being lame you cannot mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another it is possible? When you have done a good act and another has received it, why d...

A short post on that dependent origination chain, a good scholarly article by polish author joanna jurewicz in which she tries to relate how each element of that chain was an attempt by buddha to reinvent the brahmanism karmakanda or yajna process from birth to death known is the 16 samskrtas or rites of passage, good work .

Thats a great question and my answer is yes in bits and pieces but not as a whole .Why do i say that? because if one understands textual evidence then it is clearly made up of strata with different chronology.Now buddhism as we know as of now is very much in formalised form, call it as a finished product which the compilers worked on so as to reduce the anomalies and give it a uniform structure Clearly identifying such strata in that structure is a key to understand the development of buddhism starting from buddha itself,in fact questions could be raised as to what determines or shows us that this entire development was set in motion by a historical buddha. Well buddhism as we all know is a organisational based movement and clearly such movement does require a central figure, a core tenet, a person which did indeed set the ball rolling , without that there is no possibility to see how an organisation of a grand scale which encompassed half of civilisation could even sustain itself Like...