Wisdom through Mindfulness

Sole dominion over the earth, going to heaven, lordship over all worlds: the fruit of stream-entry excels them. — Dhp 178 "Monk...

"Monks, I will teach you the All. Listen & pay close attention. I will speak." "As you say, lord," the monks respond...

"Monks, there are these five groups of clinging * . 1. The body-group 2. The feeling-group 3. The perception-group 4. The mental-format...

"Suppose, monks, that the great ocean were to go to extinction, to its total end, except for two or three drops of water. What do you t...

The five rewards of conviction (faith) in a lay person. 1. "When the truly good people in the world show compassion, they will first sh...

The Blessed One, picking up a little bit of dust with the tip of his fingernail, said to the monks, "What do you think, monks? Which is...

In a stream-winner,  five forms of fear & animosity are stilled : 1. "When a person takes life, then with the taking of life as a ...

1. Arahant "In this community of monks there are monks who are arahants, whose mental fermentations * are ended, who have reached fulf...

A well-instructed disciple of the noble ones, when endowed with these four qualities * [the factors of stream-entry]: 1. Has no terror 2. ...

"A disciple of the noble ones endowed with these four qualities * is a stream-winner, steadfast, never again destined for states of wo...

As for the number of rebirths remaining for the stream-winner before total Unbinding, the Buddhist texts distinguish three levels of attainm...

"In this community of monks there are monks who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters * , are stream-winners, steadfast, ...

Photo 1 Photo 2 I recently had a small crack on the windshield of my car. I was just trying to take a photo of it so that I would keep a re...

"Just as it's not easy to take the measure of the water in the great ocean as 'just this many pails of water or hundreds of pa...

A Poppy blooming in my garden in the morning after the three coverings are shed . * For the stream-winner , the arising of the Dhamma eye —...

"Sariputta, when you know of a householder clothed in white, that he is restrained in terms of the five training rules(i) and that he ...

There are these four kinds of nutriment (food) for the maintenance of beings that already have come to be and for the support of those seek...

"There is the case where a monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful awareness-release. He attends to the cessation of self-ident...

Whoever can't endure them once they've arisen — painful bodily feelings that could kill living beings — who trembles at their touch,...