The Buddha stressed the urgency for change saying that the human situation is like a man whose house is on fire. What was true for the individual then is becoming increasingly true for our collective existence today…
Books
Buddhist books
Still Flowing Water, by Ajahn Chah
A collection of eight new or significantly revised translations of Ajahn Chah’s Dhamma talks PDF, mobi and ePub versions…
Clinging to Self, by Bhikkhu PA Payutto
A fun short story. The moral of this story is: if you want to say ‘there is no one who creates karma,’ you must first learn how to stop saying ‘Ouch!’
The Development of Loving-kindness
Just as the radiance of all the stars does not equal a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance, but the moon’s radiance surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant, even so, whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the mind-release of loving-kindness…
Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry
Occasional book review, ‘The Handbook of Iconometry’
Being Our Own Refuge, by Geshe Tashi Tsering
Sometimes we may feel that we do things without any kind of conscious intention. But if we are truly mindful, we can notice ourselves as we act; and if we trace the motivation back, we will definitely see that we have an instinctive wish to enhance our happiness…
Satipatthana Sutta
There is this one way for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrows and griefs, for the going down of sufferings and miseries, for winning the right path, for realizing nibbana, that is to say, the four applications of mindfulness. The Buddha
Dharma Talks by the Inanimate, by Ven SongChol
Everything throughout the universes always speaks the Dharma.
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