Wisdom through Mindfulness

There are three things a farmer should do in a hurry (urgently) 1. get the field well-plowed & well-harrowed. 2. plant...

The formula to progress in path of enlightenment There are four factors. The first two are external factors (you gain from outside). The las...

Flowers in a.m. (left) The same flowers in p.m. (right) Impermanence is one of the key teachings of the Buddha. Mindfulness of impermanence...

A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology ...

Ajahn Brahm always talk about this. His famous simile of the “brick wall” with the “one bad brick.” I always wondered where doest it fit in ...

Some people get too much involved in trivial details of the Dhamma rather than focusing on what is essential to the their progress in this p...

The New York Times Mindfulness meditation has become perhaps the most popular new psychotherapy technique of the past decade. Health / R...

One night I left out my garbage and the raccoons made a real mess of it. See the photos. I had to collect all the garbage piece by piece an...

Maclean's Magazine It’s not just for monks A new therapy uses meditation to prevent depression relapse CATHY GULLI May 14, 2008

Sunday, 18 May 2008 Point of view: Beijing Olympics and Buddhism By Dr. Piyal WALPOLA

"Train your mind"- Read how mindfulness can help depression in the Maclean's magazine

If one, longing for sensual pleasure, achieves it,  yes, he's enraptured at heart. The mortal gets what he wants. But if for that person...

When a person lives heedlessly, his craving grows like a creeping vine. He runs now here & now there, as if looking for fruit: a monkey ...

Just as rust — iron's impurity — eats the very iron from which it is born, so the deeds of one who lives slovenly lead him on to a bad d...

The Blessed One said, "Suppose, monks, that a large crowd of people comes thronging together, saying, 'The beauty queen! The beauty...

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain.

I call greed a 'great flood'; hunger, a swift current. Preoccupations are ripples; sensuality, a bog hard to cross over. Not deviati...

"Whatever kinds of worldly merit there are, all are not worth one sixteenth part of the heart-deliverance of loving-kindness; in shinin...

From latest scientific research: March 26 th 2008 Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Medita...