Buddhist Meditation is not normally thought of as a process of attainment or failure. Learning about ourselves is its practice and awareness is its function…
Month: January 2010
Fear and Suffering, by Corrado Pensa
We fear the unknown, that is to say, we fear the unknown consequences. Sometimes, however, there is this contradiction: we ask about practising with fear while being afraid of practising with fear…
Arthur Braverman
Arthur Braverman was born in 1942 in NY. After living in Nigeria for two years through Peace Corps he went to Japan to study Zen Buddhism.
Loving kindness and equanimity, by Ajahn Sumedho
But metta is much deeper than just nice ideas and good thoughts, isn’t it? It is a way of receiving everything and allowing things to be what they are, both internally and externally…
No Beginning, no End, by Dalai Lama
If we were to maintain that there must be a beginning at some point somewhere to consciousness, a big question mark would arise for us — how did that first moment of consciousness come about? …
Samatha and Vipassana
In the Theravada teachings on samatha-vipassanà, they divide meditation ― that English word ‘meditation’ ― into tranquillity and insight (samatha and vipassanà).
Bodhisattva Vow
Birth as a human being is rare and it is rarer still to become a Bodhisattva. Why? Because one may not hear the true Dharma; one may be insensitive to the suffering in the world…
True freedom is emancipation from our concepts. Anam Thubten
“Can we wake up to this truth?” It might be much easier than we think…
Buddhism now 