Wisdom through Mindfulness

"And what does it mean to maintain one's livelihood in tune? There is the case where a lay person, knowing the income and outflow o...

Then Kesi the horsetrainer went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, the B...

"There are these four unconjecturables that are not to be conjectured about, that would bring madness & vexation to anyone wh...

We suffer because we don't like the change. But change is the reality of all conditioned things, animate or inanimate alike.

Suffering is a result of clinging, clinging is a result of craving, craving is a result of feeling, and this all goes back to our senses. I...

Ven. Sariputta said: "Friends, just as the footprints of all legged animals are encompassed by the footprint of the elephant, and the e...

You can't gain wisdom by shutting the eyes, closing the ears... and so on (same is true for all the six senses) but understanding (reali...

We have fallen into a "river rapid" called the dependent origination, a chain of reactions that causes this whole mass of sufferin...

Keep reflecting mindfully on the Dhamma you have learnt. Dhamma is everywhere around you. Then just apply it to your life, every moment, one...

This is the method how you grow this tree to bear tasty fruits. 1. Before you plant the seed, you need to prepare the soil (fertile). 2. The...

Dhamma teaches us the the path, that finally liberate us (Nirvana) from Samsara. This is our final goal! Fetters tie us down to the Samsara....

He has become calm and at rest, Wise in speech and not self-centered; He's shaken off unwholesome states — Like wind would leaves from a...

“When you see you only see, when you hear you only hear, when you taste you only taste, when you smell you only smell, when you feel (touch)...

"Suppose a man in need of fire, looking for fire, wandering in search of fire, would take a fire stick and rub it into a wet, sappy pie...

" Suppose there were a king or king's minister who had never heard the sound of a lute before. He might hear the sound of a lute a...

"In a guest house, O monks, people from the east may take lodgings, or people from the west, north or south. People from the warrior ca...

"These are the four drains on one's store of wealth: 1. debauchery in sex 2. debauchery in drink 2. debauchery in gambling 3. evil ...

Leave that sound alone...it is not disturbing you but you are disturbing the sound! Leave that object alone...the object is not distracting...

"Suppose there were a pool of water — sullied, turbid, and muddy. A man with good eyesight standing there on the bank would not see she...