View of an Auspicious Day
You shouldn’t chase after the pastor pin your hopes on the future.What is past is left behind.The future hasn’t yet…
Shakyamuni Buddha
Shakyamuni Buddha
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
That Body Is This Body
That Body Is This Body If [a monk] were to see a corpse cast away in a charnel ground, picked at by crows, vultures, and hawks, by dogs, hyenas, and various other creatures . . .…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Mindfulness Of Death
You should train yourself: Even though I may be sick in body, my mind will be free of sickness. That’s how you should train yourself. . . . And how is one sick in body…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sutra, expounded by the Buddha at the end of his teaching career, was first written down in approximately 200 C.E. In the following excerpt, taken from Chapter 25, Shakyamuni Buddha explains to a member…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Kakacupama Sutta
FORMERLY, BHIKKHUS, in this same Savatthi there was a housewife named Vedehika. And a good report about Mistress Vedehika had spread thus: “Mistress Vedehika is kind, Mistress Vedehika is gentle, Mistress Vedehika is peaceful.” Now Mistress…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
And how, monks, does a monk abide contemplating the body as body? Here a monk, having gone into the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, holding…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Shakyamuni Buddha
Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Rajagaha in the Mango Grove of Jivaka Komarabhacca. Then Jivaka Komarabhacca went to the Blessed One, and after paying homage to him, he sat…
Magazine | Teachings And Texts
From “Teachings on Mindfulness”
And how, monks, does a monk abide contemplating the body as body? Here a monk, having gone into the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, holding…
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