Wisdom through Mindfulness

" It is just as if a man, traveling along a wilderness track, were to see an ancient path, an ancient road, traveled by people of form...

You make things worse when you flare up at someone who's angry. Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle ha...

Excellent are tamed mules, tamed thoroughbreds, tamed horses from Sindh. Excellent, tamed tuskers, great elephants. But even more excellent ...

Focus, not on the rudenesses of others, not on what they've done or left undone, but on what you have & haven't done yourself. -...

The man immersed in gathering blossoms (sensual pleasures), his heart distracted:death sweeps him away — as a great flood, a village asleep ...

Make an island for yourself! Work quickly! Be wise! With impurities all blown away, unblemished, you won't again undergo birth & agi...

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...