We have suffered the scarcity of the socialist years, and surfeited on the excesses of the consumerist age. Perhaps it is time to draw a balance, and arrive at the ethical and intelligent approach of thrift. More>>
Founded by Gautama the Buddha, Buddhism is known for its Middle
Path—that which neither promotes extreme asceticism nor absolute
hedonism yet still leads to nirvana. The Buddha promoted the eightfold
path, that of right understanding, right thinking, right speech,
right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness
and right concentration. Though the Middle Path or Buddhism discouraged
the concept of an external God waiting to mete out reward or punishment,
it firmly believed in the cycles of reincarnation completing which
a seeker could attain nirvana, the ultimate enlightenment.
