Everything on this page is measured by the same standards as for every other tradition: the same twelve values, the same eight questions, the same scale per area of life. What is measured is what the texts do, not whether they are right.
| Value | here | overall | difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patience | 66 % | 14 % | +52 |
| Knowledge | 65 % | 36 % | +29 |
| Community | 39 % | 58 % | -19 |
| Humility | 38 % | 25 % | +13 |
| Repentance | 25 % | 19 % | +6 |
| Care | 12 % | 20 % | -8 |
| Responsibility | 11 % | 28 % | -17 |
| Gratitude | 11 % | 16 % | -5 |
| Mercy | 10 % | 12 % | -2 |
| Truthfulness | 8 % | 16 % | -9 |
| Justice | 2 % | 25 % | -23 |
| Hope | 1 % | 18 % | -17 |
| Question | Answer | Share |
|---|---|---|
| What, according to this text, is the root of the evil? | Ignorance, illusion, a false view of reality | 78 % (92) |
| Where does the evil reside? | in the heart, the will, or the soul of the individual | 96 % (92) |
| What helps against it? | insight, learning, enlightenment, right understanding | 72 % (92) |
| What is human being according to this text? | entangled in deception or desire, but capable of being set free | 90 % (92) |
| Where is history heading? | the message stands outside of history | 62 % (92) |
| What does the text base its claim on? | on personal experience, testimony, encounter | 65 % (92) |
| To whom does the text's call for devotion apply? | to every human being, regardless of faith | 74 % (92) |
| Where is the text's criticism directed? | at one's own community and at oneself | 88 % (92) |
| Area | Framing | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Education and science | +0.9 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 29 of 92 texts |
| Pleasure and consumption | -0.7 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 28 of 92 texts |
| Illness and death | -0.0 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 24 of 92 texts |
| Work and performance | +0.1 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 20 of 92 texts |
| Other religions | +0.7 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 16 of 92 texts |
| Family and children | +0.1 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 14 of 92 texts |
| Environment and animals | +0.5 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 13 of 92 texts |
| Money and possessions | -0.9 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 12 of 92 texts |
| Violence and war | -1.4 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 8 of 92 texts |
| Poverty and care | +0.8 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 5 of 92 texts |
| Migration and strangers | +0.0 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 4 of 92 texts |
| State and politics | -0.3 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 3 of 92 texts |
Coleman uses autumn and nature as a metaphor for Buddhist teachings on change, letting go, and the hidden tenderness of impermanence.
A guided meditation that combines mindfulness of breath and body with metta, loving-kindness, and extends this outward to the fellow meditators.
Ajahn Sucitto explains two suttas on non-clinging and restraint as the middle way against being swept away by experience.
Guided meditation on choiceless attention: perceiving sensations, sounds, and thoughts as arising and passing, without reactivity.
A guided meditation that practices self-compassion through an imagined caring encounter and the extension of compassion to all people.
A dharma teaching on the Buddhist doctrine of vedanā: consciously perceiving and examining feelings and how we meet them, in order to find liberation.