Center for Pragmatic Buddhism

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Pragmatic Buddhism is mindfulness made meaningful for today's world — an empirical, practicable action plan for cultivating skillful living. | Ever wondered why someone would enter Buddhism as a monk? The conventional answer might have something to do with enlightenment or nirvana. Still the question remains as to why they seek those things. Someone seeks enlightenment because they have recognized that life as it is lived by the masses is vastly problematic and unsatisfactory. Someone entering the monastic life is seeking something better. However, life in our contemporary world does not lend itself to hermitage. We live ever more connected lives. Some will continue to seek sanctuary in a monastery, but is this the only option — seclusion? No. Your life can be your monastery. The Center for Pragmatic Buddhism (CPB) has chapters in

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