As we saw earlier, the Uncertainty Principle of History is that it is impossible to interpret and verify at the same time. If we are able to verify the facts, we can not interpret them, and if we can interpret them because enough time has passed, we can no longer verify the facts. What arrives to…
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The Supposed Son of the Buddha
According to the Scriptures, in the early years of the Buddha’s teaching, the Order lived together in harmony without Discipline (Vinaya), since it was not necessary, because all the Buddha’s first disciples were very conscious, if not fully enlightened.As the Sangha grew, situations arose that both the Buddha and the lay community that held them…
The Placenta
From a practical point of view, the «not-me» means that there is no «something» independent that is observing. The reality is that both observed and observer is an indivisible unit, since what is observed is not possible without observer or observer without observed. The dynamic awareness-interface pair is intimately linked. Therefore, to consider that the Lie is…
The Kamma of the Nations
Everything in Samsara is conditioned, so everything is subject to consequences;and not just the people, also the nations. Nothing escapes the kamma. The concept of the nation is a modern concept that goes back only to romanticism, linked to poetic figures such as the fatherland, the hero, independence and freedom. Very nineteenth-century concepts that still sell well…
The Mechanism of Judgment
There is a phrase that is as well known as humorous, but which is used to put oneself on top of the interlocutor by arrogantly borrowing authority. There goes the grace: » You shall not judge and you shall not be judged .» This pearl appears in Luke 6,37 and in Matthew 7,1, that is to say, the…
The Lie of Happiness
It is not false happiness, it is the lie of happiness, because there is no «true» happiness, as there is no perfect drunkenness. Happiness is the engine of humanity, a motor of lies, by which people are lost every day. It is totally incredible how it is possible to talk so much about happiness, that cocks…