Hi Anatta, I do really agree with your advice to willy 1590. Another really good teacher is Thanissaro Bhikkhu with much online information including Youtube. Only thing I would add for anyone is that "cool, intersting or different" is very good enough to begin to look into Buddhism. How...
Lots of good references online. I follow a Buddhist tradition, Mahayana, that has evolved from India, through China and then through Japan. It is no better or worse than than the original lineages which still exist from the early years - Theravada. So google those 2 terms to begin and see...
My own take on this idea is that no one person ever penetrates the self or being-ness except as they go through what is sometimes called "The Dark Night Of The Soul." The Dark Night is the Christian version. If interested in "Hinduism" then a good intellectual understanding would be found in...
My take on this is that...any art that is about something, including being about atheism or depicting atheism or influenced by the concept of atheism, is actually more like religious art than not. However, art that begins in not knowing but refers consciousness to the actual Knowing itself, is...