Wisdom through Mindfulness

As a potter's clay vessels large & small fired & unfired All end up broken, so too life heads to death Young & old Wise ...

Buddhism teaches you to become your own therapist. It give you the tools to how to deal with life's difficult situations we all face wit...

Life's easy to live for someone unscrupulous, cunning as a crow, corrupt, back-biting, forward, & brash; but for someone who's c...

“The motivation of all religious practices is similar. The basic goal is the benefit of human kind, each type of system seeking in its own u...

"Monks, suppose a cloth were stained and dirty, and a dyer dipped it in some dye or other, whether blue or yellow or red or pink, it wo...

" Just as when boys or girls are playing with little sand castles: as long as they are not free from passion, desire, love, thirst, ...

On one occasion the Blessed One was staying among the Ayojjhans on the banks of the Ganges River . There he addressed the monks: "Monk...

" Now suppose that a magician or magician's apprentice were to display a magic trick at a major intersection, and a man with good ...

Recently I have been observing a building site close to my home. The builder first cut down the trees and cleared stumps and the rocks off t...

" Now suppose that in the last month of the hot season a mirage were shimmering, and a man with good eyesight were to see it, observe ...

" Now suppose that in the autumn ... when it's raining in fat, heavy drops ... a water bubble were to appear & disappear on th...

Have you ever peeled an onion? If you look inside after peeling all the layers, you will find there is nothing in the center. The layers of ...

There is only one universal language in this world. That is the language of "loving kindness." The language of "loving kindne...

"Suppose a man in need of milk, looking for milk, wandering in search of milk, would twist the horn of a newly-calved cow. If he were t...

The remains of an ancient city in Sri Lanka (Sigiriya) Dhamma is the true existence of nature. It is always there whether we see it or not....

" Monk, just as if a fisherman were to cast a baited hook into a deep lake and a fish with its eye out for food would swallow it — so t...

" Imagine a room with five windows. There is a monkey in the middle of this room. This monkey is constantly jumping form one window to ...

Even if for a lifetime the fool stays with the wise, he knows nothing of the Dhamma — as the spoon, the taste of the soup. Even if for a mom...

Happy new year 2008 May this year be filled with loving kindness in every heart.