The Fool and the Wise

The fool and the wise often are equally simple natured beings. The main difference therein is, that the fool unconsciously yields to laws which he neither perceives, nor understands. While the wise consciously cooperates with laws he perceives, because he knows, not cooperating with them produces suffering. But what are the laws the wise understands,…

Upanissaya Paccaya – Condition of Interdependence

No phenomenon is a single isolated unit. All things are in some way interrelated. And being thus, the condition of one thing usually depends on the conditions of various other things. Using the consideration of the four elements again as a basis, we may gain the first grasp of the fundamental nature of this condition.…