Why is Buddhism so Damned Expensive?
Yesterday my colleague Sam posted a blog that quickly prompted a thoughtful response from a practitioner in Scotland. At the the end of his post he writes, There is one thing about Buddhism that I find…
Retreat
Turn into the Skid
The following was excerpted from Week 2 of Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara's Tricycle Online Retreat, "Ease and Joy in Your Practice and Life."
The Dharma Gate of Ease and Joy
How many of us can describe out meditation sessions as “joyful”? That is the challenge Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara lays out for us in Week 1 of her Tricycle Retreat, “Ease and Joy in Your Meditation…
Equanimity
Thanissarro Bhikkhu, from “The Ten Perfections Week 4: Calm,” When the Buddha was teaching his son to be equiniminous he said, “Make your mind like the earth. Make your mind like water. Make your mind like…
Generosity
Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s Tricycle Retreat, “The Ten Perfections,” is now in its third week. The topic is generosity and letting go. Visit the retreat here. (There’s a free 2-minute preview of the teaching if you’re not a…
The 5 Rewards of Listening to the Dhamma
“There are these five rewards in listening to the Dhamma. Which five? “[1] One hears what one has not heard before.[2] One clarifies what one has heard before. [3] One gets rid of doubt. [4] One’s…
Not everything that’s true should be said.
From the second talk of Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s ongoing Tricycle Retreat: In applying the principal of truth in life, you do have to make two distinctions. The first is in the “truth of statements.” If there is…
Meditation is Deeply Somatic
In the classical Buddhist traditions, meditation is deeply somatic—it is fully grounded in sensations, sensory experience, feeling, emotions, and so on. Even thoughts are related to as somatic—as bursts of energy experienced in the body, rather…
The Inner Body isn’t Solid and Fixed
In Week 2 of his Tricycle Retreat, “Touching Enlightenment,” Reginald A. Ray continued with his teachings on body meditation, taking the participants further into the practice of lower belly meditative visualizations. After the completing the session,…
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