Wisdom through Mindfulness

Even for a moment if we can lay down this "burden," the five aggregates, we can be free from dukka. However as these moments pass ...

"Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy pointless search for security," Woods said, adding...

"There is the case where a monk, considering it appropriately, takes his food not playfully, nor for intoxication, nor for putting on b...

"There is the case where a monk, on seeing a form with the eye, does not grasp at any theme or variations by which — if he were to dwe...

Like a fish pulled from its home in the water & thrown on land: this mind flips & flaps about to escape Mara's sway. Hard to hol...

What do you think, monks: Which is greater, the tears you have shed while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time (samsara) — cr...

" 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...