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4 days ago · Awareness of these fundamental realities led the Buddha to formulate the Four Noble Truths: the truth of misery ( dukkha; literally “suffering” but connoting “uneasiness” or “dissatisfaction”), the truth that misery originates within the craving for pleasure and for being or nonbeing ( samudaya ), the truth that this craving can be eliminated ( ...
- Four Noble Truths
Four Noble Truths, one of the fundamental doctrines of...
- Eightfold Path
Eightfold Path, in Buddhism, an early formulation of the...
- Four Noble Truths
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...” ― Henry David Thoreau
3 days ago · The debate, at 9 p.m. Eastern, could be the single most-watched moment of the presidential campaign, with consequences that ripple all the way to November. And much of the credit — or the blame ...
2 days ago · Here's why that's important : Short Wave : NPR. Earth is more than a planet with life on it. It's a "living planet". Ferris Jabr's book, Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, examines the ...
1 day ago · Since the opening act of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, a diverse set of characters have trod the boards – stars, planets, moons, quasars. But if you tend to get fidgety at the theatre ...
Daoism is a philosophical, ethical, and religious tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the Dao. • The fundamental realm of Daoism is the world of nature - which encompasses additional supernatural or transcendental dimensions.
4 days ago · Epistemology, ethics, history, metaphysics. Plutarch ( / ˈpluːtɑːrk /; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) [1] was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [2] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
