Neoplatonic Buddhism is a philosophy of awakening to Ultimate Reality, understood in Neoplatonic terms as the One. It reinterprets and synthesizes Early Buddhism and Plotinian Neoplatonism while incorporating insights from modern science, Daoism, Vedānta, and Process Philosophy into a complete and coherent worldview.
It teaches that the One—the transcendent, nondual Absolute—emanates Nous as the ordering principle and the Dyad as dual energetic potential. Through their interaction, the Cosmos emerges as a real, conditioned, and evolving process.
Consciousness evolves through karma and rebirth, ascending toward liberation, while matter decays toward entropy. By cultivating the Noble Eightfold Path—right view, intention, speech, action, stewardship, purification, mindfulness, and meditation—the practitioner purifies conduct, steadies the mind, and develops wisdom, culminating in metamorphosis into Ultimate Reality. This metamorphosis is called nirvāṇa in Buddhism and henosis in Neoplatonism.
Neoplatonic Buddhism rejects revealed scriptures, miracles, and divine intervention. What remains is philosophy, practice, and the direct realization of what is ultimately Real. It is a philosophy for the individual practitioner, not a religion for the masses.