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The Examined Life: What Socrates Actually Meant
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates said this at his own trial, knowing it would cost him his life. What kind of examination did he mean?
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The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates said this at his own trial, knowing it would cost him his life. What kind of examination did he mean?
The river you stepped into yesterday is not the river you step into today. Heraclitus said this in Greece. The Buddha said the same in India. They were pointing at the same fire.
Between the extremes of indulgence and asceticism, the Buddha discovered something unexpected — the path that leads not between the extremes but beyond them.
The word karma has entered popular culture — and in the process, lost most of its meaning. Let us return to the source.