“Confidence is ignorance. If you’re cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.”

What I discovered, those decades ago, was that Buddhism was not a religion but a way of looking at the experience of being alive as a human being. That single understanding was truly life-changing. It set me on a journey of discovery and learning. Here was wisdom whose roots reach back well over 5000 years into human history. It represents the cumulative insights of hundreds of millions of human beings. And yet it is founded on only four basic principles.