The Essence of the Buddhist Practice

What is the Essence of Buddhist Practice? The Buddha taught how to open the casket of our minds, to the vast expanse inside and outside.

Instead of living in a cocoon of worries and anxieties about everything,

Instead of living a life of destructive emotions,

Instead of the futile hope of a god coming and fixing our problems,

Instead of the futile hope of the world outside fixing all our problems,

Instead of the futile hope of finding peace in the ravines of mind away from the world,

Instead of hopelessly falling into inaction and depression,

The Buddha showed, how

To uncover the vast spaciousness of mind where everything is resolved,

To unleash the mind into its very nature of clear awareness and bliss,

To live a life of peace, happiness and contentment*By Rene Tebel

Last Friday, the Austrian government announced it will ban the preaching and teaching of the Koran in seven mosques and check whether 40 to 60 imams should be expelled.

The Austrian government under the conservative 31-year-old Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sees this step as necessary to curb "political Islam" and other radical tendencies.

Austrian Chancellor, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (Twitter)

Applying Austrian Islam-Gesetz Law

The legal basis of this is the Austrian Law of Islam ( Islam-Gesetz ) of 1912, which was modernized in 2015 by the then minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration Sebastian Kurz, the current Chancellor. The law provides new rights for Muslims, such as food according to religious rules, pastoral care in public institutions such as prisons, hospitals and the Austrian army.

On the other hand, the law requires