Tag: Religion
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Hermetic Philosophy and the Great Seal Mahamudra, is there a Universal Wisdom?
Hermetic philosophy and Mahamudra converge on universal truths regarding reality and self-realization. Both advocate for transcending illusions, emphasizing interconnectedness and direct experience. While Hermeticism provides structured principles, Mahamudra highlights non-dual awareness, ultimately guiding practitioners to recognize the infinite truth within themselves, present in the simplicity of the moment.
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Descartes Fourth Embracing the Path of Enlightenment: A Buddhist Perspective on Certainty and Truth
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Descartes’ Fourth Meditation emphasizes God as the guarantor of truth, while Buddhism focuses on the mind’s power to unveil ultimate reality. Descartes trusts in God for truth, but Buddhism looks within, using mindfulness and meditation to uncover reality. In contrast to Descartes’ reliance on God, Vajrayana Buddhism emphasizes clear view and enlightenment. By embracing these…
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Choose your Own Adventure
More and more every day modern science is coming to terms with what on the outset was an uncomfortable reality. That is that the observer (you and I) play not just an important role in reality or in our universal experience but actually that we are the deciding factor at the centre of it all. I…
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Niels Bohr and the Buddha “Awareness or Creation”
“Everything we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real” Niels Bohr. What exactly did Neils Bohr mean here? In modern Quantum Physics, we begin to understand that what we have learned such as particles or atoms to be nothing more than probabilities and potentials. We don’t actually know what an…
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Science, Jesus, and the Buddha why cant we just get along?
The Core of the Problem There is something quietly strange about the way science, Jesus, and the Buddha are so often placed in separate worlds, as if they have nothing meaningful to say to one another. One becomes fact, one becomes faith, and one becomes philosophy—but somewhere along the way, all three become tangled in dogma. What begins as direct…
