A Right to the Dharma
Add to Wisdom Collection: Add to Wisdom Collection is public An Interview with Myokei Caine-Barrett, ShoninThis article is part of an online special section about Nichiren Buddhism. We hope that by...
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Add to Wisdom Collection: don't add to collection is not public Elizabeth Gilbert Meditating at an Indian ashram, ELIZABETH GILBERT struggles to keep it together with no help from her brain.The...
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Add to Wisdom Collection: Add to Wisdom Collection is not public Buddhism is not just a set of techniques for self-help. There is something much bigger going on. Dharmavidya David Brazier This article...
View ArticleA New Way of Observation
It is because our way of observing things is deeply rooted in our self-centered ideas that we are disappointed when we find everything has only a tentative existence. But when we actually realize this...
View ArticleTransforming Pain Into Joy
Fundamental darkness, or ignorance, causes us to experience the cycles of birth and death as suffering. When we call forth and base ourselves on the magnificent enlightened life that exists within each...
View ArticleCreating Better Karma
Your thoughts, your words, and your deeds all create karma. And so through practice, you learn how to create better karma, and then everything about your life changes.author: Myokei Caine-Barrett,...
View ArticleJoyful Dependence
We depend through the whole of life on the support of others—upon the natural world, upon other people, and, spiritually, upon the tradition of wisdom that has come down to us through human history. In...
View ArticleTranscending our own Views
If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that even if the truth comes and knocks at our door, we won't want to let it in. We have to be able to transcend our previous knowledge...
View ArticleGet Real
Add to Wisdom Collection: Add to Wisdom Collection is not public An interview with Shin Reverend Patti NakaiReverend Patti Nakai, the associate minister at the Buddhist Temple of Chicago, grew up as a...
View ArticleNo Easy Answers
People come to Buddhism looking for answers, but Buddhism is not about giving you some easy formula. It’s all about you needing to question yourself. When you think you’ve got it, that’s when you...
View ArticleNot Self-Help
Buddhism asks us to go beyond the self, not to perfect the self.author: Dharmavidya David Brazier pub_date: 07/12/2013story_relationship: Living Buddhism
View ArticleDevotional Practice
In Asia, laypeople generally relate to Buddhism devotionally. But in America, when laypeople engage in these traditions they most often want to relate to them solely as a yogic path, beyond devotion....
View ArticleNo Easy Answers
People come to Buddhism looking for answers, but Buddhism is not about giving you some easy formula. It’s all about you needing to question yourself. When you think you’ve got it, that’s when you...
View ArticleShomyo no Kai
Add to Wisdom Collection: don't add to collection Voices of a Thousand YearsFor many Western Buddhists, chanting is a regular part of practice. But few perhaps are familiar with chant’s long and...
View ArticleLovingkindess Defined
Lovingkindness is defined as the fervent desire to establish all beings, without exception and without distinction, in happiness and joy.author: Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche pub_date:...
View ArticleA Place for Desire
The ultimate aim of my own Buddhist practice is an indestructibly confident and happy state of life through which I can help suffering people. Finding a balanced place for desire in that pursuit helps...
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Add to Wisdom Collection: don't add to collection Melodies from the Meditative State Mary Talbot THERE IS A SAYING in Tibet that a beautiful voice can make a wild animal stop dead in its tracks and...
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