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It's AMAZING to me that we have this knowledge at our fingertips in this age. The knowledge in this video would have taken an entire lifetime of travel and study across many distant countries.

Buddha said: “I teach one thing and one thing only: suffering and the end of suffering,” which is the ultimate goal of Buddhism.

7:16 mahayana 2:39 therevada 11:47 vajrayana

I’ve been having a hard time finding simple explanations about Buddhism. I appreciate the fact that you’re breaking things down logically, before getting into all of the philosophical stuff.

Im from Thailand. And This channel gives me more reliable information than my 12 years in school

I am 51 years old. And just in the last week, have been interested in learning about Buddhism. I am glad I came across your channel. You are a good teacher. I have subscribed to your channel. Thank you.

Being a mahayana Buddhist I request u that question and criticise us and on buddhism as much as u can. Blind faith is the cause of decline of buddhism. U have lots of knowledge of buddhism, so whenever u meet a Buddhist plz must ask so many question . Thanks for learning and teaching buddhism behalf of all Buddhist.

2:37 Theravada Buddhism - Insight Driven - Focus on the historical buddha - Less Ritual - Less Hierarchical - Rational and Conceptual Clarity in their teachings - Uses interpreted texts - Become awakened reduce greed, hatred, ignorance does not focus on buddha nature - Very strict monks 7:21 Mahayana Buddhism - Encompasses Zen, Tibeten, Pure Land Buddhism - Devotional Driven (robes, incense, bells, elaborate rooms) - Mantra and ritual based practice - Guru and Teacher based. You would - Very relaxed monks - Break reliance on Reason to understand the world. More non-rational. - Uses more modern texts 11:46 Vajrayana Buddhism - Tantric Buddhism - Intensely guru based, typically work with one teacher for years and years - Intensely hierarchical - Devotional Focused - Initiation rights to bind to gods, gurus, etc. - Mantras, Mudras - Texts are VERY powerful - A lot of aspects are kept secret and not able to be studied without leacher (sex, alcohol, etc. )

I know this is an old vid but I just found this now and as someone interested in Buddhism this is so informative and easy to digest. Trying to find info about the schools through self research was sooo confusing

Thank you so much for this video! I left the Jehovah’s Witness religion with my husband last summer. We’ve decided Christianity isn’t for us, so we’re exploring eastern spirituality. We feel as if it represents us better. We are going to a Buddhist temple tomorrow, and by watching this video, we are much more informed- and prefer the Theravāda temple!

I have been an Asia traditional practitioner my entire life. This is my first time listening to to a Western Buddhist view. You did great!!! From your pronunciation to the background images, they are really gorgeous and precious. Thank you so much for spreading the words!!! Keep up a good work

I'm not entirely sure why, but everytime I'm having a hard time in my life, I end up finding myself back on your channel. Good material my friend.

I first know Buddhism when I was 7 years old through my Dad. I read some Mahayana Sutras ,I find it long and quite hard for me to understand. Meanwhile I later read the 5 Nikaya Pali Sutra (which I believe they belong to Theravada Buddhism), I find them simple and easier to understand. The context in Pali Sutra is close to ancient Indian lives, many simple examples Buddha use to explain his teachings.

Hi Doug! I've been attracted to buddhism for a long time, but every time I try to study or practice it I feel overwhelmed and I don't know where to start, your videos are helping me a lot, so thank you so much for doing this ✨ I'm sending you good wishes from Argentina!

At 54 I’m wanting to expand my knowledge and understanding of Buddhism as feel this could be a path for me. Thank you for these amazing videos

Great overview! Even though I’ve considered myself Buddhist for a decade and been to one of Thich Nhat Hahn’s monasteries and did a day of mindfulness, read many books, and taught meditation groups, I still get the different schools confused and overlapped mentally. Granted, I mostly take what’s helpful for me and leave the rest. Great vid. Best wishes.

As someone who is recently convinced by the core ideas of the four truths and eightfold path, I’m conflicted, because I’m drawn towards the rationalism in Theravada, but I’m also drawn towards the compassion towards others and the bodhisattva vows and so forth in mahayana. I don’t care for devotional practices, but I feel rituals in general have a practical purpose of spiritual centering/re-centering and strengthening conviction if that makes sense. Meanwhile the very few western/secular buddhists I have met seem to largely be interested in adopting only the aesthetic of a buddhist while cherrypicking concepts and practices that match pop psychology and the self-help industry, ultimately more interested in personal improvement for the end goal of material benefits rather than a cessation of suffering in either the self or others. But I can’t help be drawn to the idea of secularism as an empiricist myself. But this is the perspective of a prospective outsider, just voicing my frustration with not feeling like any school is a good fit for me rather than trying to disparage anybody

It’s a very good explanation Doug! When I first converted to buddhadharma you built my foundation. I myself have been a vajrayana practitioner for some years because I have been attracted to Tibetan Buddhism since a little child, and it’s been the biggest gift of my life to find the teachings, the Buddha, my sangha and my gurus. As my root guru His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche says: “It doesn’t matter if one calls a Buddhist or not, the dharma is love”. Also from a broader view I think it would be very good to mention that every teaching that fits under the 4 seals Is Buddha dharma: 1. All compounded things are impermanent. 2. All contaminated phenomena cause suffering. 3. All things are selfless, or in other words interdependent. 4. Nirvana is beyond extremes( nihilism and eternalism). This is the teaching of the Buddha.

I really agree with the secular buddhism, but i also respect to others school😇🙏 May all beings be free from suffering.. May all of u be happy 😇

I love your clarity, humility, and your open minded depictions of the various schools of thought. It is a difficult world we live in and your words are helpful in both dealing with it, and giving the opportunity to still enjoy life. "Live long and prosper." modern Buddhist friend. ;)

I almost think Zen has more in common with Taoism than traditional Buddhism, especially in the idea of “non-striving”. They argue that one overcomes the self not through training but through sudden awareness. My Zen teacher would often say “Don’t you know? You are already empty. There is nothing to overcome.” That always stuck with me. Also, how liberal a sangha kind of depends on the school. Soto Zen is pretty lax compared to warrior-esque Rinzai.

Great explanation of the three major schools of Buddhism. Thank you. Regards from Mexico :)

Thank you for making the effort to put this video together. Much appreciated.

Thanks Doug, another excellent video. It's always been fascinating to see how people of different spiritual ideas incorporate local beliefs. Christianity is rife with it and Buddhism is no exception. You mentioned the Hindu connections. Tibetan Buddhists absorbed aspects of the Bo tradition. Chan, later Zen, happily includes Taoist ideas. Now we are seeing how the different schools are adapting to Western lifestyles and we can compare the same schools with the way they work in other parts of the world. A Christian evangelist acquaintance insists that all Christian denominations, at least the ones he approves of, have the same core beliefs. I hope we can all remember the roots of Buddhism. Your series of talks helps that ideal a lot.

Hey man. I am from Sri Lanka born in buddhist family. Sri Lanka has only Theravada buddism. We are highly practicing sathipattana meditation in our monasteries. As I think Thailand,Mynmar and Laos like that. If you want to learn in deep come to Sri Lanka.. Namo Buddaya.. Sadu Sadu Sadu...

thank you for making this video! I've been getting into Nichiren Buddhism lately and this helps me look at the practice from a 10000 foot level, much love from LA

i’m just getting into Buddhism and only beginning my research, and your videos have already been so helpful in forming my understanding of Buddhism as a whole and where I see myself fitting in with my personal practice. thank you so much for your clear and direct explanations!! 🖤

I’ve been practicing at a Chan Buddhist center in Northern California. It falls under the Mahayana category. Some of what you said was true for my monastery, but some of it was not. Overall, my experience has been extremely positive. The center is definitely ritualistic; there’s a lot of singing, chanting, and of course, lots of meditation. The monastery is beautiful and full of statues of bodhisattvas and arhats. Dharma talks from the head abbas are engaging and informative. Like you said, there is a focus on things like emptiness, non-duality, inherent Buddha nature, and other teachings that feel somewhat paradoxical at times. There is a robust community of monastics at the monetary I attend and they are extremely lighthearted and good humored. However, they are strictly devoted. They don’t marry, they don’t drink alcohol, and they are vegetarians. Thank you for your informative videos! Amitofo!

Hi Doug! I found your channel maybe two years ago at the beginning of quarantine and now two years later I’ve fully found myself as also a secular buddhist. In many ways, I’ve found you to be my “guru” or teacher when it comes to learning more about buddhism and finding new methods and concepts shared in the pali canon and other texts of early buddhism that has really resonated and affirmed my beliefs. Like what you say in every intro of your videos, I’ve found myself becoming kinder, wiser, and living a more fulfilling life. I think what I’m trying to say with this message is thank you for making these videos. Without it, I wouldn’t have realized how compatible buddhism is to my life as someone who has left roman catholicism and faced many times I felt adrift, bouncing between athiest and agnosticism. Keep up the good work and I hope to see more videos soon!!

Thank you very much for your videos. I only discovered them a week ago. They are so very helpful. I have been studying Tibetan Buddhism for a few years because I had easy access to teachers in my area. But I have been struggling to find faith in all the deities, mantras and rituals, which left me feeling not worthy and somehow guilty (even though they say there is no word for guilt in Tibetan). I thought of looking into Zen but suspected that they would have a lot of rituals as well, this time just from a different culture. I like listening to Theravaden talks online, but didn't know where to start finding out more about them. By chance I found your videos and they are a great help. I am trying to find more clarity which path to choose and I am very tempted to become a secular Buddhist even though I believe in rebirth 😉. I am looking forward to find out more about Buddhas original teachings. Thank you so much Birgit 🙏

I'm very thankful for this video, I've been trying to find a simple explanation of the different types. Thank you very much for making it!

You are a great lecturer, Doug! Thanks a lot for all these fantastic videos! 🙏🏻

Thanks for the great video, great insight to someone who is just a year into my Buddhist journey. Much love from Wales, UK.

Excellent talk. I have been. a member of a Theravadan Sangha for 20+ years, Great Lakes Buddhist Vihara in Southfield, Michigan.

Great video ! This video gives me a quick overview of major schools of buddism

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have been interested in Buddhist teaching for a long time. I wasn’t getting anywhere with my internet searches. Thus, I turned to KZfaq for information that is how I found your channel. I am very grateful for your videos.

It's a great video, easy to understand and so helpful to have all the information in a neat overview in one place. Thank you 🙏

Excellent explanation regarding the schools of Buddhism. Love your channel.

This is a big big huge subject. Kudos to brother Doug to kept it concise. Its not easy.

You're awesome. Thank you for clarifying this in such a simple way.

Really good video and I appreciate you trying to be as open and honest on this.

I start my MA in Buddhist Studies this September and your videos are so helpful. Thank you!

I just would love to say that I’m great full to come across your channel. You organized this video very well. I’m currently 15 years old and very confused in the world and after hearing about Buddhism, I became very interested in the idea of each branch. I found it very hard to find anything with a straight answer so I appreciate having people like you, know exactly what you’re talking about and teaching others. Thank you!

Wonderful summary, very comprehensive, thank you for this service!

I feel inclined to add that when the Mahayana talk about "emptiness" / "void" / "nothingness", we're not being nihilistic. It's a way to communicate the inconceivable nature of reality. As soon as you conceptualize or define "nothing", it isn't actually nothing anymore. This is Buddha nature (as I understand it), and I liken it to the way that people conceptualize God. If God is omnipotent and omnipresent, then all things must be the expression of that perfectly unified, infinite God (the true nature of which is concealed by our limited perceptive faculties). Anyway, I'm obviously a little more on the superstitious side than you are, and I'm way more pedantic; but I thought this would be a fun addition to your already phenomenal introduction. Love your content, man!

Incredibly helpful. Thank you very much for your work, Doug 🙏🎧☮️🎻

Doug, my experience sitting with the three schools has been pretty much identical to yours. I sat with a Tibetan group for a few months in Rochester NY. The meditation room was exquisitely decorated with ornate tapestries, sculpture, beautiful pillow seating with little sort of desks on the floor for the exquisite little spirals of printed chants we were given. Some people robed. Seated in a u. Good meditation leaders. I sat with a zen like group a couple of times in oyster bay Long Island aligned with plum village. It was not for me. Everyone spoke in whispers. It was overly reverential, I felt like I was in a cleared out reception room of an old mansion, which we were. It just felt forced to me. The Theravadan Long Island Buddhist meditation center in port Jeff and now moved to riverhead was for me. As you say, very egalitarian even though it was led by very skillful monks. They explained everything. We stared with chanting, then readings from the Pali canon where we went around the circle and read aloud, then two meditations… metta followed by breath. The monks were associated with bante g and the Vihara in West Virginia. Some people left as they they got hung up on the issue of rebirth. I’m agnostic on this. I don’t care. But it was a barrier to some. I feel they might have been more content if they just let it go.

Thank you so much - very informative and clear

As someone new to Buddhism, so much easier to follow than books! I've wanted to learn how to practice for a while but the meditation centre near me is just too expensive for a student :( these are super helpful for teaching myself at home so thankyou!

Thank you for bringing it together

Appreciate your sharing🙏 I'm not a Buddhist practitioner but into Spiral Dynamics (theory on evolution of individual deeper drives/worldviews) instead and just came back from a 7 day meditation workshop (in a small dark room by self...a cave...without talking to other people most of the time) . I believe your teaching sheds light onto what I'm working with now e.g. different Buddhism practice should suit people of different deeper drive. Thanks again!

Secular Buddhism seems to make the most sense to me. Stories of people remembering past lives and re-birth sound as fantastical as unicorns. But using Buddhism to sharpen your morality and behavior and using meditation to calm yourself, get centered is to me the most important concepts of Buddhism. I've been attending a Buddhist temple in town and they are some of the most non-judgemental and kindest people I've ever met.

This is a very clear and helpful description of the 3 different schools of Buddhism

Thank you so much!!! You are amazing!!! I am forever grateful for your explanation!!!

This is brilliant!!Clarity🙏Thank you😊

Thank you for such a great video. Very informative 👏🏾

Love to hear your take on Shingon and Nichiren Buddhism.

This is so helpful! Thank you!

The video is so useful! Thank you so much❤️

really appreciate this content,, very clear and insightful information. :)

2:39 to get right to the point

Thank you for this 🙏 Is all so confusing when you are just starting out. Have been following Theravada practise as again, i just stumbled across it from by chance. You have clarified that it is definitely the right for me so thank you for that. Really interesting, really appreciated...... 🙏

Thank you! I m new to this and It resonates with me

My introduction to Buddhism came through Zen, specifically Soto and more recently the Kwan Um School. I think Zen and, to a certain degree, Vajrayana are the most visible entry points for westerners. I’ve had good experiences in practicing with these approaches, and I’ve been curious to learn more about the ins and outs of Vajrayana. Thanks for your videos!

Great and very informative high-level intro and summary on the 3 main "schools", thank you so much! However, I missed a very important aspect of Vajrayana Buddhism from the video. As far as I know from my studies, the early / ancient Tibetan religion (Bon or Bön) had a very intense influence on Vajrayana, including rituals, visual representations, deities and other beings, afterworlds and so on.

This is really good, very informative. Very helpful. . Thanks

Excellent explanation. I felt like a good professor was teaching me some new concepts.

Really insightful, thank you!

Thank you, Doug. I'm a Sri Lankan living in Australia for the past 45 years. I was raised as a Christian -but now I follow Buddhist practices. Not based on beliefs or dogma. I live a Buddhist life. I understand One dharma (Joseph Goldstein). I understand the 4 noble truths. I practice Mindfulness Meditation daily, also the four immeasurables- Metta, Karuna, Mudita, and Uppeka. For me, the practice of purification of the mind to escape suffering is the goal.

Thank you Doug

Very interesting, good clear guidance.

I just moved to a new state and one of the closest Buddhist temples to me is a Theravada Buddhist temple. I have been doing more research into that school of Buddhist thought due to proximity for the most part.

Would very much enjoy a deep dive into the different Zen schools (Korea, Chinese, Japanese, etc)! Thank you Sir!

Post-Buddhism is fun. Many mindfulness practitioners as myself do not use the label "Buddhist", but use modified Buddist meditation and maybe some insight in Anatta, Anycca and such.

I was raised within the practice of Zen Buddhism , which my Swedish father converted to when I was a child. Meditation was a large part of our practice, as well as reading, the three-fold path, attempting vegetarianism , sitting Zazen, and chanting almost every morning before school (Franciscan-Catholic school). Surprisingly enough my father was a celebrated Christian filmmaker at the time, and so I was asked to be silent about my Buddhist upbringing. However I found that Buddhism and Catholicism fit together easily, as did my Sicilian mother's adult conversion to Unitarian Universalism. In fact, Zen Buddhism fit easily with every religion and spiritual practice I explored as I grew up, from Hinduism to Christianity, to Witchcraft, to Nature Worship to Paganism, to Sikhism, to Agnosticism, to Kabala, to Atheism, to Ram Dass, to Scientology, to Judaism, to the belief in Ancient Aliens, to Totems, to Alister Crowley, to Astrology, to Huxley, Tolkien, to Transcendentalism, to Universalism, to worship of the Old Gods. Buddhism fit snugly with them all, allowing cohesion to exist no matter what religion I was exploring .

Thank you very much for explaining Vajrayana. I have limited understanding, and I what I have read, I found confusing. Your explanation of Tantra and it's apparent link to Shaivism was also very useful. I recall reading somewhere that the sexual practices and some of the deities in Tibetan Buddhism were due, in part, to the pre-Buddhist animist practices in Tibet being co-opted or mingled with Buddhist teachings from India. It seems clear there was a good deal of interaction between various "religions" in the first few centuries after the Buddha lived; same as today.

As always well done. Would you consider doing a presentation on near and far enemies?

My introduction was to Pureland Zen from a Zen master from Vietnam who had a temple composed then of two joined houses and another across the street. My journey was to investigate and feel and see whether this religious experience or that was to make me a better person. I was both loved and hated wherever I went. I was also influenced by studies and practices of the sixties and seventies that were involved with self practice. I came to the conclusion that it was the feeling of helplessness from traumas and deprivations in life that were the cause of many blocks to enlightenment and that unlearning the helplessness turned into neurotic symbolic struggles that is the source of greed is an essential part of the introspective process that leads to greater personal enlightenment, less anxiety and freedom from the idea of a permanent unchanging conscious agent called a "soul" or "atman" which concept can block personal change with its inherent clinging to transient conditioned existence. The path as I came to see it involved internal dialogs and deeper pre language or non language mindfulness which develops gradually into a more moral and enlightened state. The path in a nutshell is that one must feel the times of helpless feelings from a position of wisdom and compassion developed in dialogs both internal and external in order to know what one has lost, grieve that loss and let it go, having let go, forgive others from the heart, having forgiven others from the heart, forgive yourself from your heart for the harm your state of non enlightenment had caused, and having done so, know that the one having tears of remorse is no longer the one who did the harm. This is a process repeated at deeper and deeper levels. The middle path, in my view, is about healing anxieties stemming from the past with empathy and compassion, healing anxieties about the future through objectivity and wisdom, and using the creative ability to stand outside yourself and see the hero, the Buddha nature striving to cope, set within a great story to be appreciated and embraced, and to see that others are the same: Buddhas waiting to rise as the lotus from the pond. This kindness to oneself, and kindness to others, are each catalysts for each other and positive change. I see no perfect gurus, or ranks of perfections, just heroes that with the right mindfulness of themselves, are the Buddhas, and I see no perfect Buddha in this conditioned world, unless it is all of us working together in love. Now I grow, and as I change from the baptism of many tears, I know that all life is to be cherished, that real freedom is found in the middle path and a secure mindfulness applied to all our experiences. And when I practice my path in my imperfect way I find tears of compassion, remorse that liberates, and wisdom to help me live my life today and not feel either superior or inferior to anyone, but rather just a potential imperfect friend who is "good enough" because he is on the path, and not because he has achieved anything, and that there is nothing to "achieve". I laugh now in ways that remind me now of my beloved Honorable Venerable Doctor Thich Thien An, who will always be in my heart. I fail everyday, and I am always learning more and more about the difficult skills of tolerance for the superstitious nonsense that corrupts our minds from time to time, I learn to see the hurting hearts that hide the Buddha nature, I learn to restrain from being overly forceful or overly cowardly, and teaching others, and myself, from where each are, instead of from where I think myself or others "should" be. It is not by will that we climb the difficult hill to enlightenment, but by the healing force of compassion and wisdom, that like a seed, grows to a greater vision because we have slowly liberated ourselves from the clinging brought on through no fault of our own because of anxieties and helplessness that are bound to occur in every life. It is both lightning flashes of enlightenment and a slow progression that brings us to our true natures, and the flashes themselves must not be clung to, we are a moving stream, a circle in the air formed by a lit stick of incense in a dark room: Thank you Dr. An.

Wonderful work Doug, thank you! I woudn't say that Zen is 'irrational' because Dogen is a very rational author, but I would say that Zen uses non-conceptual approach to generate insight as skillful means. Additionally I woudn't say that Vajrayana uses complicated visualization, rather than complex visualizations. I leave here these as suggestions... Your work is amazing, these are just minor points that I think valuable.

This helped me a lot :)) thank you!!! Also, a recommendation - I am a visual learner, and I would find it helpful if you could incorporate some!! either way, I’ll keep watching! nice job!!

Great talk. Are you able to make a video on the lineages within these schools please?

Thanks Doug! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Fascinating. Thank you.

Great video. Would you ever consider doing a deeper dive into each of the three major schools? I'd be really interested in a video on the various schools of Theravada Buddhism, differences, similarities, history, and practice styles. I.e. Thai & Thai Forest (Ajahn Chah), Sri Lankan schools, Burma, Cambodia, etc... -with Metta

Thankz, Doug!

Thanks Doug for this comprehensive explanation! Another largely secular path is Shambhala, which consists of Mahayana and Vajrayana practices inspired by the Tibetans and Zen. Tibetan deities are acknowledged and invoked but these are usually interpreted as aspects of mind. The founder Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche interpreted Buddha Nature as Basic Goodness; Shambhala seeks to create an enlightened society by practicing to develop this Basic Goodness. More advanced Vajrayana (tantric) practices depend more on Tibetan tradition and working with the Guru, along with a vision of "Sacred World." Notably, Shambhala strives to be ecumenical; Chögyam Trungpa used the term "hinayana" to refer to only the early stages of the path of meditation, and not as any comment on other traditions.

Thank you, Doug! That's awesome that someone can explain such things so simply and clearly. I was introduced to Buddhism through Mahayana because have lived in South Korea for a bit. So, I have a silly question: is it appropriate to go to a Theravada temple or a local Theravada community for a person that follows Mahayana? There're no such things in my region, only in a city that is 600 km away and it's not really popular in my country in general, so I don't have a choice but go there. Wish you the best. Greetings from Russia!

Thank you so much!

Your videos are just amazing to me. I appreciate them so, so much. This topic is fascinating to me. I study yogi spirituality and Buddhism. Buddhism and the yogis of India have much in common, but there a few important differences (not the topic here lol). I'm drawn to all schools of Buddhism in some way. I've been studying it for about 4-5 years. I have listened to many different teachers from all schools (Ajahn Brahm and Yuttadhammo Bhikku [Theravada], Amy Miller Robina Courtin, and Geshe-la [Tibetan], Brad Warner [Zen], etc.). I have learned a lot from all three schools. Tibetan Buddhism feels more like "religion" to me (more like yogi spirituality in India). It is also much more complicated than all the other schools. I like the heart-feeling aspect of Tibetan Buddhism (heart yoga); its chants and the receiving of blessings (good wishes). It uses emotion more to tap into the Buddha's teachings. On the other hand, Theravada is logical and rational, focused solely on healing the mind to "see clearly." Here's your mind; here's ultimate reality - now let's deal with it (end of story). And lastly, we have Zen (not familiar with mayahana Pure land): Zen is simplistic but uses paradoxes (as you said) to transcend the "logical" mind (koans). You don't use your intellect and reasoning as you do in Theravada Buddhism. You cannot be taught enlightenment - you get there being always in the present through zazen (meditation). Enlightenment cannot be explained, only known. There are just my generic assessments. But they may be helpful to someone. Who knows? I am a highly emotional person, so Theravada and Zen are more suitable to me overall than Vajrayana. I need to become less emotional. lol. I like the logic of Theravada for dealing with everyday issues (non-reactive mind), but there is something about Zen should I want to go "further" (the paradoxes of existence). And the Zen gardens represent reality so well for me. At any rate, fabulous videos. I look forward to watching more of them. I wish you peace and enlightenment with all my heart.

Hi Doug. I’m loving these videos. I started with zen, mostly getting my teachings from Insight now and also exploring Navayana. These videos are so great for myself and to send to my friends who are drawn to Buddhist meditation. Do you have any where you explain the history of relative & absolute realities? Also Faith? Would love to see that. Thank you!

Wonderful video, thank you

Thanks so much for this video Doug. I have always found buddhism interesting and turned to meditation and mindfulness in recent years to cope with and deal with significant stress/trauma. Lately, I have realised I would like to know much more about buddhism and turn towards buddhist practice in a stronger way so I am grateful for you breaking down the highly complex nature of the various aspects!

very knowledgeable session.

It should be noted that this isn't a strict separation. For example, the Plum Village tradition founded by Thay Nhat Hanh, is an off shoot of Thien, or Vietnamese Zen, which blends Zen/Chan and Theravada Buddhism.

You are like an incarnate of the Buddha himself! Speaking with such clarity, objectivity, and teaching calibre! Thank you!

Thanks a lot teacher😊

Great Video. Trivial Point : Therevada is in South East Asia but also SOUTH Asia as it is practiced in Sri Lanka.

Thank you I’ve been trying to find a school of Buddhism that kind of fits me

thank you!