Holiday: Journaling is to Stoicism what meditation is to Buddhism
“Journaling is to stoicism as meditation is to Buddhism. It is the practice of having a conversation with yourself about your thoughts, and beliefs, and values, and actions”
Weisbrot: Buddhism Offers Gentle Suggestions Unlike Dogmatic Western Religions
“I found that it was very different from Western religions because Western religions are generally saying you need to do this or you're going to hell where Buddhism is like, Hey, if you want to live a good life, consider doing that. You don't have to, but try i…”
Svensson: Avoid spiritual labels when explaining your meditation to skeptical family
“Often if they are very closed-minded, It's probably not a good idea to openly say, you know, I'm following a spiritual path now, I'm a Buddhist, I'm doing this and that. We're probably going to attract a lot of negative attention. But of course, if we just tel…”
Kortina: Buddhism does not motivate civilizations to attempt massive projects
“I had this thought once, like, you know, Buddhists are not gonna get us off this planet when the sun burns out. Like, it's a very From my sort of, you know, 50,000 foot view of it seems like a very like internal focused life is struggling. How do I cope with t…”
Ravikant: Evolution and Buddhism are completely reconcilable philosophies
“My philosophy falls down to, and one pole is evolution as a binding principle, because it explains so much about humans and the near side is Buddhism, which is the oldest, most time-tested spiritual philosophy on the internal state of being inside each of us. …”