Wisdom through Mindfulness

" Just like a cloth , dirty & stained: Its owners give it over to a washerman, who scrubs it with salt earth or lye or cow-dung and...

Staying attached to the cave, covered heavily over, 1 a person sunk in confusion is far from seclusion — for sensual pleasures sensual desi...

Fully worn out is this body, a nest of disease, and fragile. This foul mass breaks up, for death is the end of life. -Dhammapada

The Earth Property "And what is the earth property? The earth property can be either internal or external. Which is the internal earth ...

The Liquid Property "And what is the liquid property? The liquid property may be either internal or external. What is the internal liq...

"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...