Living well & purpose
20 related entries. Shared tags aid navigation; they do not imply identical beliefs or practices.
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Japanese ways of living
A curated cluster of concepts from Japanese language, aesthetics, and social life, each with its own history.
Japan · 5 highlights↗Korean social concepts
Concepts about relationship and social awareness that deserve cultural context beyond social-media shorthand.
Korea · 5 highlights↗Stoicism
A Hellenistic school concerned with virtue, judgment, and how to live well amid uncertainty.
Ancient Greece · Rome · 5 highlights↗Epicurean philosophy
Epicurean philosophy asks how to live pleasantly by understanding needs, friendship, fear, and the natural world.
Mediterranean · 5 highlights↗Aristotelian virtue ethics
Aristotle's ethics asks how people develop character and judge well in concrete situations.
Ancient Mediterranean · 5 highlights↗Buddhist traditions
A family of traditions concerned with suffering, impermanence, ethical action, and paths of liberation.
South · East · Southeast Asia · 5 highlights↗Daoist traditions
Classical texts, later religious communities, and practices concerning the Dao, naturalness, and skilful action.
China · 5 highlights↗Hindu traditions
A vast family of devotional, philosophical, ritual, and contemplative traditions.
South Asia · 5 highlights↗Jaina philosophy
A living tradition with rigorous ethics, accounts of living beings, and disciplined paths of liberation.
South Asia · 5 highlights↗Sikh teachings
A living tradition of devotion, remembrance, equality, and service rooted in the Sikh Gurus and Guru Granth Sahib.
Punjab and global diaspora · 5 highlights↗Ubuntu and hunhu
Related Southern African discussions of character, humanity, social relations, and responsibility.
Southern Africa · 5 highlights↗Hawaiian pono and hoʻoponopono
Pono has a range of Hawaiian meanings involving goodness, justice, wellbeing, and fitting relation.
Hawaiʻi · 6 highlights↗Won Buddhism
Won Buddhism began in Korea in the twentieth century through Sotaesan's teaching.
Korea · global communities · 5 highlights↗Confucian traditions
An evolving family of ethical and political traditions concerning learning, relationships, and good government.
China · Korea · Japan · Vietnam · 5 highlights↗Neo-Confucian cultivation
Neo-Confucian thinkers developed new accounts of pattern, human nature, study, and moral cultivation.
China · later East Asia · 5 highlights↗Kyoto School philosophy
The Kyoto School is a twentieth century Japanese philosophical conversation, beginning with Nishida Kitarō, in dialogue with Buddhist and Western thought.
Japan · 5 highlights↗Bahá’í teachings and practice
The Bahá’í faith joins prayer, fasting, consultation, and the independent search for truth within a modern global religion.
Iranian origins · worldwide · 5 highlights↗Diné Hózhó
Diné discussions of beauty, balance, harmony, and living well in relation to land and community.
Diné Bikéyah · North America · 5 highlights↗Wiradjuri Yindyamarra
Yindyamarra is a Wiradjuri way of speaking about respect and how to live well in relationship.
Wiradjuri Country · Australia · 6 highlights↗Yawuru Mabu Liyan
Mabu liyan is central to Yawuru understandings of a good life.
Broome region · Western Australia · 6 highlights↗