There is a big difference between the experience of oneness with Ultimate Reality and the interpretation of that experience. And if you don’t understand the difference, you’re likely to be confused.
The simple fact is that the mystical experience is … Read the rest
Wisdom is perspectival knowing. It is the capacity to inhabit an integrated, well-fitted, and comprehensive orientation to reality, discerning what is salient and how it matters within the whole.
Experience is participatory knowing. It is direct, lived involvement in which … Read the rest
Assent is the acknowledgment that a claim may be true. It is purely intellectual agreement with the mind, not a volitional commitment of the will.
Belief is the acceptance of a claim as true with both the mind and the … Read the rest
Hedonism is the belief and lifestyle that treats pleasure as the highest good and ultimate aim of life. Its guiding principle is simple: if it feels good, do it.
When someone is asked why they did something and answers, “because … Read the rest
Dan is an Atheist. One day he proudly proclaimed, “There is no God.”
So I asked him, “Do you know everything?”
Looking at me weirdly, he answered, “No, of course not.”
So I said, “So what you don’t know might … Read the rest
The four stages of liberation in Buddhism are stream-enterer (Sotāpanna), once-returner (Sakadāgāmi), non-returner (Anāgāmi), and arahant, the fully liberated one. However, these are better understood as attainments rather than stages. There is no gradual process here—only arrival.
In contrast, the … Read the rest
