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		<title>Practical Buddhism: What is Buddhism ?</title>
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Practical Buddhism: [1] What is Buddhism ?
What is Buddhism ?
In a word, Buddhism is a quest. It&#8217;s the search for ultimate metaphysical knowledge and insight. It is not a religion, or a philosophy, or a way of life, or a faith: it is an investigative quest. A true Buddhist begins at the beginning &#8211; at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a start</title>
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Making a start, on the quest to answer life&#8217;s biggest questions.
To begin with, we have to establish a context, or a mental or psychological environment within which to function. You have to get your mind in gear. And the key components of a healthy mental environment are sanity, moderation, and a striving towards the highest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Chan ? A lecture by Master Sheng-yen 聖嚴法師 [1977]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Chan is a Chinese term rendered as Zen in Japanese]
[Transcript of a lecture, giving a very simple but lucid account of what the Chan practitioner is trying to achieve] [Taken from the Western Chan Fellowship site]

I wish to start by telling you that Chan is not the same as knowledge, yet knowledge is not completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Zen</title>
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Introduction to Zen
Zen is a basically radical sect within Buddhism, which is itself a radical metaphysical quest, as opposed to a standard faith-based religion. All of which makes Zen something of an extreme approach to the big questions of life. Zen has come about as the result of the application of no-nonsense Chinese and Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Buddhism ?</title>
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What is Buddhism ?
Buddhism is basically a quest, rather than a religion. It is a way of approaching the ultimate questions of life, but of approaching them in such a way that you find yourself on a metaphysical journey, rather than simply joining a community, and participating in that community as a believer. Buddhists are [...]]]></description>
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