Buddha’s main teaching focused on escape from suffering. When he claimed to experience Nirvana, one of the resulting insights was a concept labeled: “The Four Noble Truths.” These succinctly state that life is inevitably going to include...
Most New Age sects and Far Eastern religious groups insist there are many doors to an ultimate state of being (oneness with God). However, Jesus did not claim, “I am one of many doors to the sheepfold.” Promoting an exclusive approach, he asserted...
The University of California Berkeley campus in the 1960s was a place of great social ferment, but some referred to it as “the open ward.” Fringe members of the hippie movement like me, and even those from the ‘far side,’ found a comfortable social...
