The Simile of the Lump of Foam
In an excerpt from Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi offers literal translations as well as interpretations of original sutta text from a teaching on the Five Aggregates.
Meditation Month 2022
We Are All This Luminous Mind: The Possibility and Importance of Awakening
A Zen view of what awakening is and isn’t, with personal stories from contemporary practitioners
The Sound of a Bell, the Seven-Piece Robe
Freedom is not silence and peace, an excerpt from Passing Through the Gateless Barrier explains. Freedom is being at ease in noise and chaos.
Meditation Month 2022: Self-Transformation
Week 4 of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s guided meditation videos
Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves?
We come to terms with our painful past by extending forgiveness to ourselves
The Unbinding
Finding inspiration in the myth, magic, and moment of clear seeing in the story of the Buddha’s enlightenment
Jhana: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing
Meditation teacher and political columnist Jay Michaelson explains how jhana meditation is a transformative and vital part of the eightfold path.
Emptying into Spaciousness
Learn to take the backward step that turns your light inward, illuminating your true self.
Crossing the Ocean
Theravada Buddhist monk Bhante G explains that looking inward to realize the impermanence of all conditioned phenomena is the path to nirvana
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