Wisdom through Mindfulness

"There was a great mountain slope near a village or a market-town which two friends, coming hand in hand from that village or market-t...

Suppose that a man were to come along carrying a burning grass torch and saying, 'With this burning grass torch I will heat up the rive...

The goal of the Buddhist teaching is to put an end to this relentless cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death (samsara) and to reach ult...

" Suppose a dog , overcome with weakness & hunger, were to come across a slaughterhouse, and there a dexterous butcher or butcher...

As the prickly lotus is unsmeared by water & mud, so the sage, an exponent of peace, without greed, is unsmeared by sensuality & th...

"Shattering fetters, * l ike a fish in the water tearing a net, like a fire not coming back to what's burnt" - Khaggavisana ...

Cut downthe forest of desire, not the forest of trees. From the forest of desire come danger & fear. Having cut down this forest & i...

"A city made of bones, plastered over with flesh & blood, whose hidden treasures are: pride & contempt, aging & death ....

"Monks, there are these three types of unskillful thinking: thinking of sensuality, thinking of ill will, thinking of harm."- Budd...

"Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained. Such...

What do you think: There is the case where a man is one who takes life, steals, indulges in illicit sex; is a liar, one who speaks divisive ...

Whoever harasses an innocent man, a man pure, without blemish: the evil comes right back to the fool like fine dust thrown against the wind....

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...