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God may not be as incompatible with Buddhism as you thought

Ask many Western Buddhists about God, and you’ll probably get a dismissal. “The Buddha was an atheist” they may say, or “God is irrelevant…

Mar 13, 2021

God may not be as incompatible with Buddhism as you thought

Mar 13, 2021

How Jung found the Middle Way — before he found Buddhism

If there’s one piece of clear evidence that the Middle Way is a universal principle, not just a Buddhist one, it’s found in Jung. Carl…

Feb 26, 2021

How Jung found the Middle Way — before he found Buddhism

Feb 26, 2021

Responsibility: What we Feel, not What we’re Held to

Do we hold people responsible, without feeling responsible? Social media storms, political campaigns, and organizational disputes often…

Feb 24, 2021

Responsibility: What we Feel, not What we’re Held to

Feb 24, 2021

Sangharakshita: Time to Depolarize the Discussion

The mention of the name of Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Movement, tends to produce very two kinds of reaction. From…

Feb 19, 2021

Sangharakshita: Time to Depolarize the Discussion

Feb 19, 2021

Embodiment means Rethinking too

What does it mean to adopt an embodied view of the world? The actual experience of your body — for instance developed through yoga or…

Feb 18, 2021

Embodiment means Rethinking too

Feb 18, 2021

There’s a Middle Way for Christians too

Like Gautama the Buddha, Jesus also left home to go out into the wilderness. Just as the Buddha is depicted as being tempted by Mara (the…

Feb 15, 2021

There’s a Middle Way for Christians too

Feb 15, 2021

The Fact-Value Distinction is a Disaster: and there is an Alternative

If your dog is hungry, should you feed him? In practice, as an embodied human being, you are likely to feel that you should. From the…

Feb 13, 2021

The Fact-Value Distinction is a Disaster: and there is an Alternative

Feb 13, 2021

The Buddha was Pointing to Something Bigger than Buddhism

What is the value of engaging with the stories, ideas and practices of great figures from the past — particularly the founders of great…

Feb 11, 2021

The Buddha was Pointing to Something Bigger than Buddhism

Feb 11, 2021

Why Sceptical Argument is Completely Practical

The story of scepticism is a story of hijacking. It begins with uncertainty as a basic human state. Uncertainty is simple enough, you…

Feb 10, 2021

Why Sceptical Argument is Completely Practical

Feb 10, 2021

Absolutization and the Middle Way: An Introduction to my Work

The Middle Way is the common focus of all my work over the last twenty years as an independent philosopher and author, including around…

Feb 9, 2021

Absolutization and the Middle Way: An Introduction to my Work

Feb 9, 2021

Robert M. Ellis

Robert M. Ellis

Multi-disciplinary practical philosopher. Author of around 20 books on Middle Way Philosophy and founder of the Middle Way Society

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