The Buddha had an answer for that.\u00a0 To explore his solutions, sign up for PHL 244 Buddhist Thought for the Spring 2025 semester.\u00a0 We will be meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 a.m.<\/p>\n
According to the Buddha, many of our negative feelings arise because we have a false view of ourselves.\u00a0 He argues that if we can learn to see things (including ourselves) as they are, we can wake up and live without the stress, anxiety, worry and suffering we experience now.\u00a0\u00a0 In this course, we will be examining those ideas as well as questions about the nature of reality, happiness, suffering, and human life in general.\u00a0 In order to better understand the ideas under examination, we will also experiment with some basic Buddhist practices \u2013 mindfulness, sitting meditation, walking meditation, metta<\/em> practice, tonglen<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n This course counts for the Women and Gender Studies minor as well as the Philosophy minor and the Ethics minor.<\/p>\n For more information contact Dr. Linda Paul at linda.paul@wilkes.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Buddha had an answer for that.\u00a0 To explore his solutions, sign up for PHL 244 Buddhist Thought for the Spring 2025 semester.\u00a0 We will be meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 a.m. According to the Buddha, many of our negative feelings arise because we have a false view of ourselves.\u00a0 He argues that if we… Read More »Do you feel that things are unsatisfactory?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}