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The engine of Karma is choice!

Karma cannot be escaped. Karma just simply means ‘your doing,’ and is not the simplistic concept of retribution and revenge that we’ve been fed in the west out of semi-ignorance Continue Reading

Posted On : 18th December 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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What is real?

Mind Vs Matter There are two sides to reality, the objective side of atoms, molecules, rocks, trees, people, places and events vs the subjective experience of the mind. Matter and Continue Reading

Posted On : 27th August 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Fritz Haber, A lesson in Karma

Fritz Haber (born 1868), was a Polish Jew, who received a Nobel prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Haber-Bosch process (a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th June 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Welcome the Peace

For over five years now I’ve been a meditation practitioner since I started back in late 2014, and never once looked back. I can only speak for myself in describing Continue Reading

Posted On : 21st June 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Philosophy at a funeral; a lived experience…

News of death Last year my maternal grandmother passed away, she was in her eighties. Some background is in order: my grandmother was taken ill to hospital and was eight Continue Reading

Posted On : 14th May 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Selected Ajahn Chah Quotes

Nine wise quotes by Buddhist scholar Ajahn Chah, we hope they give you inspiration! 1.   2.   3.   4.   5.   6.   7.   8.   Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd April 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Getting out of your own way…

For most of my life, I’ve felt like I was drowning, feverishly thrashing under the water scrambling my way to the surface which is forever out of reach. No matter Continue Reading

Posted On : 9th March 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The dissatisfied Viking

  This short article builds upon the recent article I published:  Buddhist philosophy – Exploring Dukkha as more than just suffering, as well as a helping from stoic philosophy to Continue Reading

Posted On : 2nd March 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Buddhist philosophy – Exploring Dukkha as more than just suffering

    If you study Buddhist philosophy, there’s this Pali term that’s thrown about often, but it’s not a trivial term, but a central concept to the entire philosophical framework.  Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd February 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Buddhist philosophy – Reality but a series of appearances…

(Note: Sanskrit or Pali words are highlighted in italics) Buddhism is conventionally recognised as a religion, but if you talk to Buddhists and philosophers who study this ‘religion’ that label Continue Reading

Posted On : 8th January 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion

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