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Spiritual Combat Awareness

Throughout my life, I’ve been a seeker, driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand the deeper truths of existence. This journey has brought me face-to-face with what is “spiritual combat”—a battle against dark forces that seek to hinder our progress towards enlightenment and closeness to God. Spiritual combat involves encountering mystical experiences, recognizing the realityContinue reading “Spiritual Combat Awareness”

The Ten Paths to Wholesome Karma: Cultivating Positive Outcomes in Life and Beyond

This lesson is based on AN 10.176, a discourse found in the Pāli Canon in which the Buddha explains the essential courses of Kamma. For everything we do, there will be a cause and effect. Our actions and intentions create results that can be either wholesome, unwholesome or neutral. Kamma, or karma, explains how ourContinue reading “The Ten Paths to Wholesome Karma: Cultivating Positive Outcomes in Life and Beyond”

Cultivating a Righteous View: An Introduction to The Four Noble Truths

As practitioners on the Path To Enlightenment, we begin by contemplating the three universal truths of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self. Once we understand these fundamental aspects of existence, we can turn our attention to the Four Noble Truths, which provide us with a clear and concise understanding of the nature of suffering and how toContinue reading “Cultivating a Righteous View: An Introduction to The Four Noble Truths”

Belt Ranks and Stages of Enlightenment: An Exploration of Two Different Progression Systems

“The journey towards enlightenment and the path towards mastery in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu share many similarities. Both require discipline, dedication, and a willingness to overcome obstacles and challenges along the way. In both cases, progress is measured in stages or ranks, each representing a higher level of understanding and skill. The first stage of enlightenmentContinue reading “Belt Ranks and Stages of Enlightenment: An Exploration of Two Different Progression Systems”

Five Facts Regarding Life’s Fragility and Our True Inheritance

Have you ever thought about the impermanence of all things? About the fact that everything around us is constantly changing, arising, and fading away? This universal truth, along with the fragility of life and the absence of a permanent self, is at the core of Buddhist philosophy and can be a powerful source of insightContinue reading “Five Facts Regarding Life’s Fragility and Our True Inheritance”

Existence…This is said to be Existence

5.10 Continuation With attachment (clinging) as condition: continuation (existence) is said. What is continuation? Existence. There are three kinds. Which three? They are as follows: – continuation in the sense-sphere, – continuation in the luminous form-sphere, – continuation in the formless-sphere. **Herein, what is continuation in the SENSE-SPHERE existence? This is the Kamma-world (also knownContinue reading “Existence…This is said to be Existence”