Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

by Richard Johnson

Our lives are often filled with thoughts of what we did wrong, what we should fear, who we should be angry with, or why we are not good enough.

“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.” —The Buddha

Our essential nature is consciousness, and consciousness is aware of experience but is not affected by it.

Because we pay attention to our thoughts, they become energized. When our thoughts become energized, they become our reality. We are unable to experience our deeper selves because thought is stealing our attention from it.

From a Buddhist perspective, time is just another illusion of the mind as there is only the present moment.

From the non-dual perspective, there is no one truth for how things should be, for truth is subjective and is based on perspective.