The Middle Length Discourses (MLD) of the Buddha can serve as the primary resource book for Buddhists, meditators, mindfulness practitioners, yogis, social activists, academics, students and spiritual seekers, who share an interest in the teachings of the Buddha. …
The elevation of Liberation into a metaphysic keeps liberation at a distance.
The practitioner then perceives weeks, months or years to achieve liberation. …
Dear Readers,
I am writing a chapter on love and mindfulness.
I include four important questions in the chapter. …
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Years ago, I recall writing an article comparing the Buddha’s teachings on becoming (bhava) and Darwin’s teachings on evolution.
I wrote a paragraph or two comparing Darwin’s ‘random selection of species’ and the Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising. …
There is silence and there is Noble Silence.
We pay respect to a Noble Silence, not of words, not of constructions of the mind and profoundly knowable.
We might imagine silence consists of a single element, which remains much the same. Like everything else, silence reveals itself according to the inner-circumstances. We can experience silence in a variety of ways. …
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