Copyright © 2019 Tomás Morales Duran. All rights reserved There is no doubt that one of the issues that most attracts attention worldwide is the so-called «Climate Change» sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization created for that purpose by the United Nations Organization, and driven by various social, cultural,…
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What is Buddhism?
If I start to say what it does NOT consist of, it would never end. The catalog of what is not Buddhism you have everywhere. They have turned it into a hypermarket of barbarities that only sustain them either faith, or tradition or directly to the threat. Let’s make it clear once and for all. Buddhism is exclusively…
Negligible
«Before the truth that peace» was the motto of D. Miguel de Unamuno, rector of the University of Salamanca in the difficult times for the intelligence how they were the first times of the military uprising that gave origin to the Spanish civil war.That motto that transports us to the Greek pahrresia is an essentially…
Corruptos, corruptores corrompidos
Tanto hablamos de monjes desviados, creadores de cismas, inventores de nada, escritores de mentira, adherentes a herejes y fanáticos del absurdo que ya no nos está dejando de llamar la atención. Realmente el budismo históricamente se ha basado en revivals fundamentados en barbaridades. Y tampoco ya nos extraña. ¿Cuántas veces hemos denunciado el uso, el…
Revival (IV). The «Strange Oriental System» called buddhism by Gogerly
Reverend DJ Gogerly devoted much of his forty-year work to research in Buddhism as set out in Pali’s original works, and the results of his research can not but be of interest to students of a religion that professes almost a the third of the human race. The following text belongs to a lecture given…
The Structure of Reality (XIII)
The way in which the vagabonds of Samsara see this rather than condition them determines them. Although it seems a palpable obvious, that everything is conditioned is something that very few see and almost nobody understands. To see it you have to use the senses to perceive the world, and the reasoning to understand it. A…
Hypocrisy
One has to spend time in a Theravadin monastery to see the spiritual effects that the centuries of Vinaya formalism have undergone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the generalized hypocrisy of monastic life. By insisting that a particular rule be followed with an almost fanatical accuracy, the monks will casually ignore the rules that do…
The Purpose
As we have already seen, without a living Buddha it is not possible to be enlightened and, in addition, the words of the Buddha resonate: Collection of speeches grouped numerically AN 1.316-332. Third sub-chapter «Monks, as well as even a negligible amount of excrement stinks, so I do not praise even a negligible amount of existence,…
The Lineage (V). Without Buddha, there is no Nibbāna
The process of Liberation or Awakening is nothing more than a case of Problem Solving. And there are many problems that must be solved, among them, the nature of suffering, how Reality works, why and for what physics works, why we are surrounded by mathematics, what is life and existence, what is the death, what…
El Buddha Desnudo 