Systemic Suffering and the First Noble Truth

Systemic Suffering and the First Noble Truth

When I entered the path of Dharma someone asked, “Did you come to Buddhism because of your suffering? I responded, “No.” He looked at me as if I were lying. Somewhere deep in my heart I felt he was saying that I had entered the Buddha Way for my own...
Ouch! Systemic Oppression and the Fourth Noble Truth

Ouch! Systemic Oppression and the Fourth Noble Truth

Perhaps it is this focus on mindfulness or meditation, and nothing else on the Eightfold Path, that leads many to misconstrue the path as a personal journey and not a collective path of interrelating, or a collective way toward the cessation of suffering. We emphasize...