Thinking is always about something. It is an attempt to categorise. What we experience is seen in the light of past experience. What we have experienced in the past is filtered through the way we look at things, our dispositions (sankhara). That is why thought will not allow us to see things anew. If we want to experience things as they really are, then thought about those things must come to an end. When thinking stops, we must be right there with what is happening…
The Unborn, the reality beyond birth and death. One of the great teachings of Buddhism. Buddhist talk given at the 2001 Buddhist Publishing Group Summer School. 62 mins
Patience requires us to go beyond the choice between fleeing or fighting. It is the third and most difficult way.
Affectionate awareness starts being a real central value in our lives.
We can see the original principle of existence in the life of a tree, a pebble, snow, the seasons and other forms in nature.
What happiness is and what it isn’t.
Putting the Buddha’s discovery into practice is no quick fix.
So we have to do zazen. It’s the most important thing in the life of a human being.
A talk by Ajahn Sumedho. Loving-kindness (Metta) to oneself and others is one of the major teachings of Buddhism. 72 minutes.
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche explains the Buddhist understanding of mindfulness and meditation.
