epub |eng | | Author:Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok

Imagine that all the diseases of you and other sentient beings are flushed out of the body in the form of rotten blood and pus. Next, visualize all the negative ...

epub |eng | | Author:Steven Collins

Foucault’s phrase “Buddhist or Far Eastern spiritual techniques” is now, in the circumstances of a globalized world and increased knowledge of it, rather quaint, and either annoying or charming depending ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:J. L. Cassaniti

Part II Myanmar (Burma) and Sri Lanka 4 BURMA: A FINE MIST, OR A CAVE IN THE WOODS “But the Burmese are scary,” my Thai friend Jieb said when I ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bhante Gunaratana

AVOID BEING ABUSED How do I forgive someone who has taken advantage of me? If I don’t shut him out he will continue to take advantage of me. How do ...

epub |spa | | Author:Y. Karunadasa

Moral Guidelines In order to prevent moral evil surfacing at the level of transgression, that is, as vocal and physical acts, Buddhism provides us with a set of moral guidelines. ...

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 | 2010-10-14 | Author:Tim Ward

Let not a man trace back the past Or wonder what the future holds: The past is but the left-behind, The future but the yet-unreached. In the present let him ...

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 | 2019-12-09 | Author:Sayadaw U Tejaniya & Doug McGill

DAY 2 be simple and just know Don’t exert. Just pay attention to whatever objects are arising in your awareness—physical sensations, sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions, whatever. You will know what ...

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 ...