Wisdom through Mindfulness

Here is Buddha's advice on right speech. This is very valuable in our daily lives as we become more mindful in our speech. S...

Imagine a stream of water flowing over a large rock. Over time it will make small tracks on the rock that will gradually become groove...

The Five Hindrances- Like a " clear a bowl of water" (still mind) with different contaminants or  situations.   ( Pleas...

The five hindrance obstuct the path to our right concentration or stillness of the mind. So it is good to identify these as we meditate ...

There has been so much discussions and debates between Samatha (tranquillity) and Vipassana (insight) meditation methods. Ajahn Brahm ...

We discussed the first noble truth in a previous post. Here we will try to explore the second noble truth, the cause of suffering or stress...

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The mind always likes to feed on thoughts. Sometimes this happens even when sleeping. Not only the mind feeds on thoughts it also regurgitat...

Figure 1: This figures shows that clinging to five aggregates is the basis of stress or suffering Buddha did not say life is stress and suff...

Physical pain and mental pain are not the same. It is important to recognize these two as distinct entities. The physical pain of the bo...

Figure 1: The five aggregates Figure 2: The five aggregates are arranged according to the sequence they are generated as shown in the mind ...

Figure 1: The basic Mind Works Model The six senses in the form generate consciousness dependent on the sense base (eye, ear...) and give ri...