Wisdom through Mindfulness

The monk who has cut off craving without leaving a trace, as if he had dried up a swift-flowing stream, sloughs off the near shore & ...

If you try to untangle your headphones by pulling them a part in a rush, it may even make it worse. But if you start from one end and gradua...

"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...

If you see an object just as an object, if you hear a sound just as a sound...(apply the same to the other senses) without "feeding...

Reality as it is becomes the right view of the meditator. Thinking of it as it is becomes the right thought. Awareness of it as it is become...

Greed causes harm. Greed provokes the mind. People don't realize itas a danger born from within. A person, when greedy,doesn't know ...

Our only refuge is the Buddha Dhamma.. Sooner or later we are all going to perish. That is the reality. Body you cannot recycle... But the m...

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...