Buddha and the end of craving
He came down from Nirvana to teach the path to selflessness, free of want and desire. How Buddha remade the consciousness of humankind.
This is Who made our minds? my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Coming soon: Cicero, the Tao and the female mystics.
WHEN PRINCE Siddhartha Gautama left Kapilavastu, in present-day Nepal, he gave up the wealth and co…
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