[Advayavada Study Plan – week 5] In Secular Buddhism, firmly bearing in mind the impermanence of everything and the selflessness and emptiness of all things, the focus is on the correct application of the historical Buddha’s so-called ‘four noble truths’: 1) that of the ubiquity of existential suffering in the world, 2) that ignorant craving and attachment are the actual and immediate causes of such suffering, 3) that this suffering shall cease altogether when we deal with and overcome its causes, and 4) that the sure way to achieve this is by following the Noble Eightfold Path, which, in Advayavada Buddhism, is understood dynamically, as an ongoing and fully autonomous, non-prescriptive, investigative and creative process of progressive insight, reflecting in human terms wondrous overall existence becoming over time in its manifest direction, this evolution or progress being, then, the fourth sign or mark or basic fact of being. It is composed stepwise of (1) our very best comprehension or insight, followed by (2) our v.b. resolution or determination, (3) our v.b. enunciation or definition (of our intention), (4) our v.b. disposition or attitude, (5) our v.b. implementation or realization, (6) our v.b. effort or commitment, (7) our v.b. observation, reflection or evaluation and self-correction, and (8) our v.b. meditation or concentration towards an increasingly real experience of samadhi, which brings us to (1) a yet better comprehension or insight, and so forth. Feel free to share this post. ~ advayavada.org/#plan