Wisdom through Mindfulness

One whose passion, aversion, & ignorance are washed away, has crossed over this ocean with its sharks, demons, dangerous waves, so hard ...

"It's not easy to teach the Dhamma to others, Ananda. The Dhamma should be taught to others only when five qualities are establishe...

The path to enlightenment is not so easy. It is a path that goes against the stream. Buddha called this "Patisothagami " or goi...

I think in meditation sometimes we get caught to a trap. When the mind runs out of the primary object, just acknowledge it and let go. Never...

"Monks, I don't envision even one other fetter* — fettered by which beings conjoined go wandering & transmigrating on for a lon...

I recently removed weeds off my flower bed and added mulch to prevent further weeds form growing. The mulch helped to prevent new weeds seed...

The monk who has demolished conceit * without leaving a trace, as a great flood, a very weak bridge made of reeds, sloughs off the near sho...

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...