The very basics of my Judeo-Buddhism in a few bullet points

For those who did not follow all my writings and want to get some orientation about my philosophical standpoints without reading tons of my literature. Here is a small overview in a few bullet points: “All that which Judeo-Buddhism actually means is understanding Judaism and Buddhism and their close relatedness in content. Jewish and Buddhist

Buddhists in the DPRK: Creating a Pure Land on Earth

The essence of Buddhism is to live a compassionate life and to gain an awareness of loving-kindness towards all human-beings, eventually reaching enlightenment. Of course, as pointed out previously by me, reality and practice are not always identical and there are Buddhist fanatics who are regarding Buddhism to be an exclusive teaching regarding it the

The Inner Child and the Storehouse Consciousness

According to Stefanie Stahl, our early childhood experiences are leaving subconscious traces in us known as the Inner Child in psychology, equaling Freud’s “It”, while the Adult-Me is the “I” and the Inner Critic or “Parents-Me” is the super-ego [Stefanie Stahl: Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden. Der Schlüssel zur Lösung (fast) aller Probleme.

Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 5

In the last part, I introduced the only Catholic Church in the TAR, and thus a tiny minority; today, we talk of the majority religion of the Tibetans and get acquainted with their views on God. Though there are many different Tibetan ethnicities, as pointed out in Part 3, something which connects them all is

Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 3: Transforming bad circumstances into our path of enlightenment

Based on Chapter 12 “Lojong” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] After we dedicated ourselves to bodhicitta, the next slogans want to help us with the transformation of bad circumstances into our path of enlightenment

Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 2

Originally, I called this series Delivering God’s Biblical message to the Tibetan people, but from the very beginning I meant that it shall not serve as a one way road. The idea was that our Tibetan friends who are not living in Europe might ask us about our beliefs and as believers in the Bible,

[Book] Timo Schmitz: “A Divinely Way to Philosophy, Vol. 2” NEW EDITION!

This book contains selected articles in English language by Timo Schmitz, which were reviewed and (if necessary) updated for this edition. They include mainly political and philosophical topics, but also display his seek for God and understanding the Creation. In the second volume, he presents his insights on Judaism and indigenous religions. Besides his series

Should we understand the six realms within Kamadhatu in Mahayana cosmology as actual existence?

Based on Chapter Chapter 9 “Are the Six Realms irrational?” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] Many people studying Mahayana books probably have heard of the ‘six realms’ （六道）and without any deeper research, one might

The Noble Eightfold Path in a nutshell

Based on Chapter 5 “The rationality of Buddhist etiquette” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] The Noble Eightfold Path can be summarized into three categories: prajna, sila, and samadhi. Sammadhitti (‘right view’) which is the

Ngöndro and Tonglen

Based on Chapter 3 “Meditation” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] In Hinduism, a quite important meditation is Chakra Meditation. For many people, chakra meditation might look quite esoteric, but the idea of chakra