epub |eng | | Author:Y. Karunadasa

Faculties of Sex There are two faculties of sex: the faculty of femininity and the faculty of masculinity. The first as defined in the Dhammasaṅgaṇi is the physical appearance, marks, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu

12 Damming the Streams of Suffering Friends, any group of wanderers or priests when regarding things70 tends to regard self as existing in various ways. All of those wanderers or ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Rob Nairn & Choden & Heather Regan-Addis

Mindfulness of Spoken Words This is another practice that can sensitize us to the involuntary arising of thoughts and the compulsive tendency to engage with them. We start by following ...

epub |eng | 1997-10-09 | Author:Khema

In the fourth jhāna we no longer experience bodily sensations but are only aware of the stillness of our mind, our emotions, and feelings. So in the fifth jhāna, “passing ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ayya Khema

QUESTIONS STUDENT: Isn’t the attachment to the senses the problem, rather than the senses themselves? AYYA KHEMA: The senses themselves are, of course, not a problem, because we cannot live ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Bhikkhu Analayo

The above presentation is only meant to depict a possible mode of practice and not to restrict a cultivation of the awakening factors to the last step of each tetrad ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Bhante Vimalaramsi

MN-38: The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving (Mahātanhāsankhaya Sutta) The Bhikkhu Sāti states the wrong view that consciousness passes on from life to life independent of conditions. The ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bodhi

VII. The Intentional Community 1. KINDS OF COMMUNITIES (1) The Shallow and the Deep “Monks, there are these two kinds of communities. What two? The shallow community and the deep ...

mobi |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Pâli

mobi |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Pâli

Footnotes 207:1 Compare the fifteen rules of a similar character, Sekhiyas 57-72, and especially No. 69. 207:2 Onlookers apparently, not strictly learners. On the force of patimâneti, compare the Bhikkhunî-vibhaṅga, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-10 | Author:Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

PROBLEM 6: BOREDOM It is difficult to imagine anything more inherently boring than sitting still for an hour with nothing to do but feel the air going in and out ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Kittisaro [Thanissara and Kittisaro]

TEACHINGS FROM THE DEPTH Develop a mind, which rests on nothing whatsoever. —Huang Po The Diamond Sutra states, “All conditioned dharmas are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, like dewdrops and ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Pa Auk Sayadaw

3 a:g Further Notes for Table lb 'The Mind-Door Process' • Cognition follows a fixed procedure, according to the natural law of consciousness (citta-niydmd). For example, visual cognition: 318 1st) ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Melvin McLeod & Editors Of The Shambhala Sun

Across Many Mountains Yangzom Brauen It doesn’t happen often, but there are times in history when a whole people acts so bravely and morally in the face of injustice that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Goldstein

Guilt A close colleague of unworthiness, walking hand in hand with it through our heart and mind, is guilt. This mind state or emotion often intrudes into situations where we ...