This is what we are all involved with. This is what life is for us at this time. We are all alive now, living within the restrictions of our bodies and minds. Whether you like it, approve of it, or whatever, it doesn’t matter…
Theravada
Is awareness lonely? Ajahn Sumedho
Extract from a talk given at the Buddhist Publishing Group 2002 Summer School. Around 3 minutes
Like a handful of fallen leaves, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
The matter of “I” and “mine” is the single essential point of the Buddhist teachings. It is the one thing which must be completely purged. It follows that here lies the knowing, understanding, and practice of all the Buddhist Teachings without exception.
The Path of Wisdom, by Ajahn Sumedho
Talking about universal love is a very inspiring subject. There is nothing wrong with contemplating universal love, either. But if that’s all we are doing, then it can be merely a whitewash over inner pain and anguish. We might want to love all beings and live in a world of unity and total love. That might be a very appealing idea. What is it that prevents us from that unity? If we trace it back, we will find it’s the ignorance that we have about ourselves…
Crashed out Buddhas, by Ajahn Sumedho
All sensory objects satisfy us temporarily, but then we have to find something else to be absorbed into — to read, think, go to sleep, get drunk, take dope, have sex. It goes on and on, without reflection…
Intuitive Insight, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
There is a word in Buddhism that covers this completely, the word sunnata, or emptiness, emptiness of selfhood, emptiness of any essence that we might have a right to cling to with all our might as being ‘mine’…
Tathata or Suchness
When I first came across this word ‘Suchness’ in Zen literature, I thought, ‘What the heck is Suchness?
Meditation In Daily Life — emotional states, by Bhante Bodhidhamma
The moods, once so solid, now seem softer and there is a general uplift towards calmness, peace and joy…
Buddhism now 