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…

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…