![]() ![]() You can call it what you like the words “Buddhist” or “Buddhism” are not important. You can think of it as “idea,” “getting used to,” and “obtaining.” If all these four seals are found in a path or a philosophy, it doesn’t matter whether you call it Buddhist or not. You don’t have to call it view, meditation and action. This process is not necessarily something Buddhist it’s something we’re doing all the time. Then the “meditation” is contemplating and getting used to the idea, and the “action” is actually buying the car, driving it and using it. So the “view,” in this case, is the idea or belief that we have, that is, that the car is a good one. For instance, if we want to buy a car, we choose the one we think is the best, most reliable and so on. Even though we may not use such expressions in everyday life, if we think about it, we always act according to a certain view, meditation and action. This is referred to as the view, meditation and action taken together, these constitute quite a skillful way of understanding the path. From a Buddhist point of view, meditation is slightly more than that.įirst, I think we need to talk about the real context of Buddhist meditation. ![]() ![]() Charming phrases like “letting go” and “being carefree” come to mind. Many people think meditation has something to do with relaxation, with watching the sunset or watching the waves at the beach. I would like to challenge the popular definition of Buddhist meditation. Unfortunately, in the West Buddhism seems to have landed in the religious department, even in the self-help or self-improvement department, and clearly it’s in the trendy meditation department. People often ask me: “What is Buddhism in a nutshell?” Or they ask, “What is the particular view or philosophy of Buddhism?” ![]()
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