But metta is much deeper than just nice ideas and good thoughts, isn’t it? It is a way of receiving everything and allowing things to be what they are, both internally and externally…
Theravada
Samatha and Vipassana
In the Theravada teachings on samatha-vipassanà, they divide meditation ― that English word ‘meditation’ ― into tranquillity and insight (samatha and vipassanà).
What is Dukkha? by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
What are the characteristics of dukkha? What are the symptoms?…
Pat Wilkinson one of the earliest Western Buddhist nuns
Pat Wilkinson went to Thailand to be a Buddhist nun (meichee) maybe fifty or sixty years ago…
Nirvana for Everyone, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
When you hear the phrase ‘Nirvana for everyone’, you may shake your head in disbelief. People in general believe that nirvana is a special place where there is no suffering, only happiness, the place usually being reached after death by those who have already achieved perfection in thousands of incarnations…
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (Servant of the Buddha) became a monk in 1926…
The path of mindfulness is the path of no preferences
.. after that I contemplated my attitude; I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity any more.
Buddhism now 