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Each year, Buddhist communities across the world observe Vassa, the Rains Retreat, followed by the traditional Kaṭhina robe-offering ceremony. For Theravāda Buddhists, these observances form an important part of the living monastic tradition established through the Buddha’s Vinaya, the disciplinary framework governing the life of the Saṅgha. Although Vassa and Kaṭhina developed within the monastic…
Reverend Samitharathana’s path from his ordination in Sri Lanka to his current studies at Oxford is the result of years of disciplined scholarship and monastic dedication. Since becoming a Theravada monk in 2009, he immersed himself in Buddhist doctrine and the classical languages that support its study, including Sinhala, Pali, and Sanskrit. His early academic…
In general, scholars argue whether ‘Humanistic Buddhism’ is a systematic re-introduction of Buddhism that has already been in pre-modern China or a new methodical re-manifestation about the core tenets of the Buddha. Herein, this study will defend the view that Humanistic Buddhism can be considered as a revival of the original intent of Śākyamuni Buddha,…
Since taking monkhood (Pabbajjā) in 2009, this has been the first ever ‘Self-Seclusion’, wherein I observed for my own sake; herein lies in respect of the Rains Retreat (Vassa) 2024. In fact, following in the footsteps of the Great Master Bhante G (Gunaratana) of West Virginia, I found that this one-month self-retreat (21 Jul –…
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind” – Gotama Buddha A part of growing up is understanding your own safety net; where your boundaries lie, and when it’s appropriate to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to suggestions. Obedience brings out the best for us,…
The realm of humanity is suffering due to lingering impacts on ignorance. ‘Alas!’ – although human beings were born into this world with truth well in hand, sadly, they jumped and dropped it out of hand. The sentient mind is naively pure and authentic, but nonetheless, it is incumbent upon everyone to clean it out…
A Poem Written by Diyana Anthony We can look at our life like a ball of thread. The start of the of thread marks our birth, And the end of the thread is hidden, Wound by several milestones That will find us to our death. If we unravel this ball of thread, we begin to…
Abstract The historical debate of scientific realism portrays a monumental sign of science-a way of critiquing philosophy. At first sight, this centrepiece of scientific realism could line up against the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic meta-induction because, by means of the no-miracles assumption, fundamental theories in science would be the fine manifestation of reality as…
Abstract The domain of metaphysics is a breakthrough discovery on the actual states of things in the world. More specifically, in line with the traditional understanding of metaphysics, it delves into the subtle nature of reality that lies upon and beyond space, time, and being. Nevertheless, there are several overarching counter-movements towards the systematic possibility…
AbstractOver the past decades, reductive materialism has made a recipe for philosophy of mind to explore the subtle nature of the human mind. By and large, many identity theorists were likely to argue that mental states can be found in cognitive faculties of the brain so that the mind, if not most, associates with discoverable…
https://bjmas.org/index.php/bjmas/article/view/580 Hume’s construal of causation historically lays out a philosophical puzzle towards realism and anti-realism; in fact, this scholarship deliberately offers a bit of thoughts for causal realism – in virtue of the Old Hume and New Hume debate, as well as its contextual language. Nevertheless, this dialectic is significantly underestimated by plenty of counterexamples…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361903023_A_Philosophical_Survey_Can_Mindfulness_Mitigate_the_Impact_of_the_Ecological_Crisis_in_Modern_Times
