Wisdom through Mindfulness

" What do you think, great king? There is the case where you have a war at hand, a battle imminent. A noble-warrior youth would come a...

" Suppose that a man were wounded with an arrow thickly smeared with poison . His friends & companions, kinsmen & relatives w...

"Sensing a feeling of pleasure, he discerns that it is inconstant, not grasped at, not relished. Sensing a feeling of pain... Sensing a...

I. Here, monks, a disciple dwells pervading one direction with his heart filled with loving-kindness , likewise the second, the third, and t...

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE HUMANS HAVE THE TOOLS TO BE COMPASSIONATE AND ENGAGE MORE READILY IN ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR PROJECT COMPASSION ... also k...

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

Seven types of individuals are to be found existing in the world... 1. An individual sinks down once and stays sunk... is like an individua...

The four kinds of clinging ... 1. Clinging to sensual pleasures 2. Clinging to views 3. Clinging to rules (rituals) and observances 4. Cling...

" Suppose that a man , taking a loan , invests it in his business affairs. His business affairs succeed. He repays his old debts and th...

"Once a hawk suddenly swooped down on a quail and seized it. Then the quail, as it was being carried off by the hawk, lamented, 'O,...

As if struck by a sword, as if his head were on fire, a monk should live the wandering life — mindful — for the abandoning of sensual passio...

"Tissa, it's as if there were two men, one not skilled in the path, the other. In that case the man not skilled in the path would a...

Who once was heedless, but later is not, brightens the world like the moon set free from a cloud. His evil-done deed is replaced with skillf...

"Now suppose that a man desiring heartwood, in quest of heartwood, seeking heartwood, were to go into a forest carrying a sharp axe. Th...

If there is a pot of water, covered with moss and water plants, then a man with a normal faculty of sight looking into it could not properly...

Like an experienced carpenter or carpenter's apprentice, striking hard at, pushing out, and getting rid of a coarse peg with a fine one,...

the monk contemplates this very body — however it stands, however it is disposed — in terms of properties: 'In this body there is the ea...

...Just as if a sack with openings at both ends were full of various kinds of grain — wheat, rice, mung beans, kidney beans, sesame seeds, ...

Just as one would put out a burning refuge with water, so does the enlightened one... discerning, skillful, & wise ... blow away ...