Mahayana Buddhism, meaning the Great Vehicle, is the most widely practiced school of Buddhism worldwide. Fundamental Mahayana Buddhist teachings include the principle of Buddha nature, that each of us has the seed of enlightenment within. We can awaken to our true nature in this very lifetime, by gathering merit along the bodhisattva path. Learn more […] The post What Are The Fundamental Mahayana Buddhist Teachings? appeared first on Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Fresh ways of looking at a concept that is often misunderstood How can we understand the concept of emptiness in Buddhism? Emptiness is an approximate translation of the Sanskrit term shunyata. The key to understanding what is meant by this translation is in the ness—the ness of emptiness means that emptiness is not empty. This […]| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
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Starting Your Meditation With The 7-Branch Mahayana Prayer| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Starting Your Meditation With The 7-Branch Mahayana Prayer| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The 4 noble truths illuminate the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. While there is great pain in life, there is a solution to our pain.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The five aggregates are a Buddhist teaching describing how our experience of life, phenomena, ourselves, and others is “conditioned.”| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
According to the Buddha’s teachings of the two truths, there is a difference between how we and awakened beings experience the world.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Emptiness in Buddhism is the teaching that things are empty of self-existence. All that we perceive is dependent on us, the perceiver.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
In prajñā or Buddhist wisdom there are two things to know: the nature of the so-called self and the nature of the other, subject and object.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path