by Barbara O’Brien The moral discipline portion of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path is Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood. What does it mean to practice ‘Right Speech’? Is it something as simple as saying kind words and…
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The Buddha’s practical instructions to reach the end of suffering Within the fourth noble truth is found the guide to the end of suffering: the noble eightfold path. The eight parts of the path to…
by Anadi To understand who we are and what meditation is, we must grasp the nature of the correct relationship with thinking. Such a relationship can only begin after we have access to our true…
by Sri Chinmoy Sometimes I must be silent For that is the only way To know a little better, To think a little wiser, To become a little more perfect, To claim God a little sooner….
Transcript from public talk by Lama Thubten Yeshe When your sense perception contacts sense objects and you experience physical pleasure, enjoy that feeling as much as you can. But if the experience of your sense perception’s contact…
Spiegel im Spiegel (‘Mirror in the Mirror’) is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978 source YouTube
A Three Month Buddhist Retreat by Steven Schwartzberg A three-month Buddhist meditation retreat is no less mind-altering an experience than ingesting hallucinogens or traveling to a remote land where nobody speaks your language or knows your…
by Marv Hiles I am discovering that Silence is not a concept, an idea, not the familiar “absence of sound.” Instead, I “enter” silence as if I were to open a door, cross a…
by David Mathis It’s surprising how loud silence can be. Especially when you’re not used to it. That’s my experience each winter, sitting there in the deer stand, the only manmade structure in sight. I…
by Joseph Dispenza A former monk shares insights from a year of solitary prayer and contemplation. A few weeks after I graduated from high school, I left home and went away to a monastery. For the…
