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Begin with a question from everyday life. Read the passages in their own settings, then notice what changes when you put them alongside one another.
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Who deserves our care?
Enemies, neighbours and the people we would rather overlook.
Explore the question →Complete guideHow do we recognize the limits of our knowledge?
Three short readings about certainty, humility and learning.
Explore the question →Complete guideWhat makes an action responsible?
Doing, avoiding and answering for what we do.
Explore the question →Complete guideHow do texts respond to death?
Mortality, change and a conversation in the face of grief.
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Short introductions and selected passages to take into your own reading.
How do these texts describe beginnings?
How do texts speak about beginnings?
See the readings →Reading outline · The divineHow do these texts speak about the divine?
Different languages for ultimate reality.
See the readings →Reading outline · Self & personhoodWhat does it mean to be a person?
Body, continuity and the language of self.
See the readings →Reading outline · Afterlife & rebirthWhat comes after death?
Judgment, continuity and future existence.
See the readings →Reading outline · Liberation & salvationWhat does freedom mean in these texts?
Different understandings of the goal.
See the readings →Reading outline · Suffering & lossHow do these texts respond to suffering?
Grief, distress and the conditions of life.
See the readings →Reading outline · Self-disciplineHow do we learn restraint?
Attention, restraint and practice.
See the readings →Reading outline · Peace & conflictHow do these texts respond to conflict?
Reading difficult teachings in context.
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