Wisdom through Mindfulness

Just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual slope, a gradual inclination, with a sudden drop-off only after a long stretch, in the sam...

Blinded this world — how few here see clearly! Just as birds who've escaped from a net are few, few are the people who make it to heaven...

Like ripe fruits whose downfall, whose danger is falling, so for mortals, once born, the constant danger is death Salla Sutta -The Arrow

Mindfulness meditation slows progression of HIV, study shows from PhysOrg.com CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brai...

How to restraint your senses: "Just as if a person , catching six animals of different ranges, of different habitats, were to bind them...

" Suppose that a man were to drop a salt crystal into a small amount of water in a cup. What do you think? Would the water in the cup ...

There is, monks, an inter-cosmic void, an unrestrained darkness, a pitch-black darkness, where even the light of the sun & moon — so mig...

Irrigators regulate the rivers; fletchers straighten the arrow shaft; carpenters shape the wood; the wise control * themselves - Dhammapad...

This is a preview of the talk "How to deal with anger skillfully" given in Toronto by Ajahn Brahm in June 2008. The full talk will...

An Interesting video posted on You Tube by Gerald D.

"Monks, do you see that large log being carried along by the current of the river Ganges?" "Yes, lord." "Monks, if ...

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...