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Advanced Buddhist Metaphysics: Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

Advanced Buddhist Metaphysics: Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

For the serious student of spiritual enlightenment: how to approach the difficult questions of life and existence – independently and objectively.

2021

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

Genuine Spiritual Knowledge & How to Achieve It

Doing your spiritual homework #1

Jul 8, 2021

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Jul 8, 2021

(Free book download) Advanced Buddhist Metaphysics: Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

A way out of endless religious delusion: this is a ruthlessly sceptical approach to all things spiritual & mystical, including Buddhism (!)

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(Free book download) Advanced Buddhist Metaphysics: Exercises in Sceptical Spirituality

3d ago

Meister Eckhart was a metaphysician not a mystic, so his teaching has nothing whatsoever to do with…

https://peter-eastman.medium.com/beyond-the-ultimate-ee3010e30fed (free to read on Substack & elsewhere)

Jan 24

Jan 24

Non-duality is an extremely complex (failed) attempt to characterise what underpins the witnessing…

So where does the failure lie? In conflating bog standard oceanic mysticism (Böhme, Jung, Plotinus) with non-duality we inevitably have to…

Jan 23

Jan 23

Basic but immediate problem of any ‘afterlife’; what about the world you’ve left – do you bring it…

Jan 21

Jan 21

Regret, no.

Dec 10, 2024

Dec 10, 2024

The quest of the Buddha was about resolving the provocation of ‘existence itself in its totality’…

Nov 29, 2024

Nov 29, 2024

(What follows is for sceptics & hard-truthers only; please don’t read it if you’re a follower of…

Oct 30, 2024

Oct 30, 2024

(Apologies: don’t read; for passersby only) God is a mistaken creation of the human imagination –…

Oct 30, 2024

Oct 30, 2024

How to make a Monkey out of God, Love, Self, Other People, AI, the Universe & anything else you…

Impossible? Nope; yet everyone misses this all the time

Oct 15, 2024

Collage of nursery figures presenting a monkey.

Oct 15, 2024

Peter Eastman

Peter Eastman

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Independent Buddhist counsellor, teacher & writer. Objective spirituality, devoid of doctrine, belief & faith. No paywall: https://petereastman.substack.com/.

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