Buddhism Plain and Simple

Buddhism Plain and Simple

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• Author: Steve Hagen
• Full_Title: Buddhism Plain and Simple
• Category: books
• Last Highlighted Date: 2023-01-13 04:56:00+00:00

Highlights

• When the Buddha was asked to sum up his teaching in a single word, he said, “awareness.”
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• Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s about examining the world clearly and carefully, about testing everything and every idea. Buddhism is about seeing. It’s about knowing rather than believing or hoping or wishing. It’s also about not being afraid to examine anything and everything, including our own personal agendas. Not
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• someone else’s. The Buddha encouraged people to “know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.”
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• The eight aspects of this path are right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right meditation.
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