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Making wise decisions
Key principles that we can use to make decisions that will create the causes of…
View PostGambling and other addictions
Expanding on the precept not to take intoxicants to include other activities, such as gambling,…
View PostThe eight one-day precepts
The eight Mahayana precepts that Buddhist practitioners may take.
View PostToo precious to lose
A call for compassion for the young perpetrators of terrorist acts in France.
View PostChapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit and Chinese tradi...
Meditative absorptions beyond the ninth stage of sustained attention, and meditative paths to the union…
View PostChapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit tradition
Advantageous preparations, postural position, and objects for meditation, and five faults that interfere with attaining…
View PostChapter 5: Concentration: Pali teachings
Eight meditative liberations that temporarily suppress afflictions, and the super-knowledges and their compassionate purpose.
View PostA prayer for the world
A look at the attacks in Paris in the context of violence around the world.
View PostChapter 5: Concentration: Process, barriers, and sig...
The five hindrances. their antidotes and five absorption factors, and the four jhānas and the…
View PostChapter 5: Higher training in concentration
Realms of existence and spheres of consciousness in gaining samadhi, and bodhisattva and tantric ethics…
View PostChapter 4: Ethical conduct and the monastic community
Purpose, benefits, and responsibilities of the monastic community.
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