But if we suffer from ourselves, no one else can tread the path for us. That, I think, is central to Buddhism; it’s our own path, our own responsibility…
Buddhism
Tashi Delek!
Happy Losar!
This life Limitless. Tangen Harada Roshi
This life Limitless, by Tangen Harada Roshi, Bukkoku-ji
Notes on Buddhist meditation
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…
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…
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? …
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…