Wisdom through Mindfulness

The three essential ingrients to gain wisdom are, the right effort, a clear comprehention and the right mindfulness. It is just like a plant...

Why do we cling to what we see? This is because of craving. If thre is no more craving how can clinging survive ? It is like a tree that alw...

Sure...there is pressure in what we see. This is why we cling to it. This same clinging will lead to our own suffering... at the end. Sam...

"Monks, if anyone were to say, 'Without having broken through to the noble truth of stress as it actually is present, without havin...

Consider your mind as your garden. It is very easy to grow weeds but it is hard to grow nice flowers. You need constant effort and mindful...

"Now how, Ananda, in the discipline of a noble one is there the unexcelled development of the faculties? There is the case where, when ...

Not even if it rained gold coins would we have our fill of sensual pleasures. 'Stressful, they give little enjoyment' — knowing t...

The king asked: "Venerable Nagasena, what is the distinguishing characteristic of consciousness?" "The distinguishing charac...

Not to gain or loss not to status or honor, not to praise or blame, not to pleasure or pain: everywhere they do not adhere — like a water be...

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

" 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...