Gautama Dhamma

Shared Quests for Liberation Beyond Death For too long, we’ve been told that Buddhism and Christianity, East and West, developed in isolation. But what if the truth is deeper — a story of hidden connections, shared lineages, and parallel quests for liberation? In this three-part series, I explore how Early Buddhism resonated with and influenced…

by Bhante Mudita Thera 🌌📜 Buddha and Plato under the same sky? When Alexander reached India, two great worlds touched: Greek philosophy and Indian Buddhism. Both asked the same questions: What is the self? What lies beyond death? How can we live free? In Gandhāra, Buddhist art took on Greek forms — the first human…

By Bhante Mudita Thera 🌍✨ Abraham = A–Brahmana? What if the patriarch Abraham — revered as the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — was not separate from India’s ancient Brahmana seers, but part of the same bloodline and spiritual current? His very name may reveal the link: Together: A–Brahmana — the Respected Brahmana. If…

by Bhante Mudita Thera 💡🧘 Did you know “therapy” comes from the Therapeutae? The Greek word therapeutae meant “healers” of the divine.” Philo of Alexandria described them as men and women living by Lake Mareotis in Egypt, practicing renunciation, meditation, fasting, and silence — healing not the body, but the soul. Their way of life…

by Bhante Mudita Thera Introduction: Rethinking the Old Story For generations, textbooks and popular works have portrayed the Buddha as a rebel against Brahmanism. We are told that he rejected the Vedic worldview, denied the ātman, and opposed the Brahmanas who monopolized spiritual authority. In this narrative, Buddhism appears as an “anti-Brahmanical” movement, a radical…

Introduction: Why Rethink Śramaṇas? In most histories of Indian religion, the Śramaṇas are described as a group of wandering ascetics who emerged in northern India around the 6th century BCE, contemporaries of the Buddha. They are often portrayed as a counter-movement to Vedic ritualism, rejecting the authority of the Brahmins and the sacrificial system in…

By Bhante Mudita Throughout history, myth and fact often intertwine, leaving behind traces of archetypal patterns hidden in language, legend, and titles. One fascinating thread connects Gesar of Tibet, Julius Caesar of Rome, and the Czars of Russia—hinting at a shared, hidden lineage of the “world-king” archetype that spans millennia. “Gesar, Caesar, Czar: three names,…

By Bhante Mudita Introduction: The Gate of Sincerity The ancient Chinese saying 「人以至诚 皆能通神」 teaches: “Through utmost sincerity, one can commune with the divine.” This is not a simple moral maxim but a profound metaphysical truth. Zhìchéng (至诚), “supreme sincerity,” refers not only to honesty in speech or purity of conduct, but to the full…

Order Theory, Aging and Death, and Gautama Buddha’s Solution This essay advances a unifying lens: life is order—the ongoing creation and maintenance of structured patterns of matter, energy, and information against entropy. Aging is the gradual erosion of that order; death is its collapse. As Newton explained a falling apple by discovering a law (gravity),…

The universe is a dynamic interplay between chaos and order. Life emerges as organized systems resisting entropy, while aging and death mark the inevitable loss of order. Evolution reflects the progressive emergence of complexity from chaos. Emotions are high-energy, chaotic forces, while intelligence and reason impose order. This article critically examines these principles, drawing from…