Wisdom through Mindfulness

Monk, bail out this boat. It will take you lightly when bailed. Having cut through passion, aversion, you go from there to Unbinding. -Dhamm...

"Monks, suppose that this great earth were totally covered with water, and a man were to toss a yoke with a single hole there. A wind f...

Untrained mind is like a " beautiful river in a rain storm". We can hardly see the beauty inside of river. But when the mind is ca...

" Once, in this same Savatthi, there was a certain king who said to a certain man, 'Gather together all the people in Savatthi who...

This is how I see it*. 1. DO in a puthujjana** : As we have discussed in other posts these processes in DO happen at such an incredible spee...

"What do you think, Ananda: Which is harder to do, harder to master — to shoot arrows through a tiny keyhole without missing, one right...

Buddha compared protecting the mind to a well protected Fortress Seven External Protections: 1. " Just as the royal frontier fortres...

There is this question that come up again and again. Is attainment of Jhana necessary for enlightenment? Jhana is considered to provide ...

" Suppose , monk, that there were a royal frontier fortress with strong walls & ramparts and six gates. In it would be a wise, ex...

Buddha saw the entire world with beings of different levels of maturity in the path of Dhamma. He compared this to a lotus pond. He targete...

Drinking the Dhamma, refreshed by the Dhamma, one sleeps at ease with clear awareness & calm. In the Dhamma revealed by the noble ones, ...

Mental formations (sankara) is a part of Dukka (five aggregates) which generates more Dukka. It is like a Dukka amplifier. "Sankatha Ab...

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Buddha said "Endowed with these six qualities, a person is capable of alighting on the lawfulness, the rightness of skillful mental qua...

Buddha said : "There are these five rewards in listening to the Dhamma. Which five? 1. One hears what one has not heard before. 2. ...

"When, on observing that the monk is purified with regard to qualities based on greed, hatred and delusion, he places conviction in him...

Whoever is overcome by this wretched and sticky craving, his sorrows grow like grass after the rains. But whoever overcomes this wretched c...

craving is dependent on feeling, seeking (investigating/research) is dependent on craving, acquisition (gain) is dependent on seeking, ascer...

How is a monk content? Just as a bird , wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden; so too is he content with a set of robes ...