Wisdom through Mindfulness

If this sticky, uncouth craving overcomes you in the world, your sorrows grow like wild grass after rain. -Dhammapada

I wish all Sri Lankan's will contemplate these beautiful words of the Buddha at this time of crisis... "Hatred is never appeased by...

Staying attached to the cave, covered heavily over, a person sunk in confusion is far from seclusion — for sensual pleasures sensual desires...

"Monks, it's just as if there were a boil that had been building for many years with nine openings, nine un-lanced heads. Whatever...

Who in the world is a man constrained by conscience , who awakens to censure like a fine stallion to the whip? Those restrained by conscienc...

On one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Varanasi in the Deer Park at Isipatana . There he addressed the monks: "Monks!"...

Not startled, like a lion at sounds. Not snared, like the wind in a net. Not smeared, like a lotus in water: wander alone... Khaggavisana...

"' Just as a river flowing down from the mountains, going far, its current swift, carrying everything with it, so that there is no...

One who is skillful in looking after a cow herd is also very skillful in dressing wounds in the cows to maintain a healthy cow herd (read th...

"What do you think, great king? Suppose a man, trustworthy and reliable, were to come to you from the east and on arrival would say: ...

"There are these gross impurities in gold: dirty sand, gravel, & grit. The dirt-washer or his apprentice, having placed [the gold] ...

" 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...