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.
Beginners
Buddha, by Ajahn Sumedho
Rather than trying to seek for Buddha or truth (dhamma) in terms of some idea or some doctrinal dogma that we might form around the concepts of Buddha and dhamma, the Buddha pointed to suffering and its cause. By recognising its cause as attachment to desire, we let go. When we let go of the cause, then we realise the cessation of suffering. The Buddha was actually teaching the way of nonsuffering. The Eightfold Path is really the experience of nonsuffering, in the present, in the here-and-now…
The Buddha’s Discovery, by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
What happiness is and what it isn’t.
Putting the Buddha’s discovery into practice is no quick fix.
It’s all an adventure, by John Aske
Never mind the broken chairs and the shattered table, and the light that didn’t work, it’s all an adventure, every bit of it, so we might as well enjoy it even when everything seems to be going wrong. In fact, the moments when it goes wrong are often the times to throw the doors wide and invite all the troubles in, the happiness, the despair. ‘Greet them with laughter,’…
Metta, by Ajahn Sumedho
A talk by Ajahn Sumedho. Loving-kindness (Metta) to oneself and others is one of the major teachings of Buddhism. 72 minutes.
Mindfulness and Meditation, by Ringu Tulku
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche explains the Buddhist understanding of mindfulness and meditation.
First steps into Buddhist meditation
You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself, or make other people say and do the things you want them to say and do. All of your power is contained within this moment, related to this particular body and mind. And this is a very powerful position to be in…
Opening the Heart, by John Aske
Life in the West is full or problems and traumas, and we move from one to the next like a blind person finding the way along a rope bridge. We can, it is true, refuse to see the ‘bad’ things, or simply live on the surface of life, but that merely produces another kind of unhappiness with the voice of our lost psyche calling us from a long way away, with not only the problem shelved but our humanity and the richness and colour of our lives as well…
Buddhism now 