Wisdom through Mindfulness

" Suppose a hen has eight, ten, or twelve eggs: If she doesn't cover them rightly, warm them rightly, or incubate them rightly, th...

So hard to see, so very, very subtle, alighting wherever it likes: the mind. The wise should guard it. The mind protected brings ease. -Dh...

" Now suppose that, not far from a village or town, there were a dense forest grove, and there in the grove was a tree with delicio...

A city made of bones, plastered over with flesh & blood, whose hidden treasures are: pride & contempt , aging & death . -Dhamm...

" Just as the royal frontier fortress has many weapons stored, both arrows & things to be hurled, for the protection of those with...

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...