Wisdom traditions
Humanity's oldest answers.
Nine traditions, born in different centuries and continents, all circling the same question: how then shall we live?
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India · c. 2nd century BCE
Bhagavad Gita
The path of selfless action.
India · c. 800–200 BCE
Upanishads
The end of the Vedas, the beginning of inward inquiry.
India → Asia · c. 5th century BCE
Buddhism
The end of suffering through clear seeing.
China · c. 4th century BCE
Tao Te Ching
Living in harmony with the way.
China → Japan · c. 6th century CE
Zen
Direct pointing at the moon.
India · c. 2nd century BCE
Yoga Sutras
Stilling the fluctuations of the mind.
Jewish mysticism · c. 12th century CE (roots earlier)
Kabbalah
The hidden architecture of the divine.
Islamic mysticism · c. 8th century CE onward
Sufi Wisdom
The path of the lover.
Greece → Rome · c. 3rd century BCE
Stoicism
Freedom through what depends on us.