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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 46-48
Helpful verses for taking responsibility for our own lives and experience and becoming heedful of…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 43-45
Being taken advantage of, jealousy at others' good fortune. Looking at what is behind these…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 38-42
A look at the karmic causes of difficulties in our practice or difficulties overcoming the…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 34-37
Verses describing the causes of karmic results such as interferences with understanding the teachings and…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 29-33
The results of not respecting the monastic sangha and the Dharma texts, and not meditating…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 25-28
When others turn on us, friends become enemies, when we become sick, looking at the…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 22-24
These verses cover the causes of such results as disappointment from our spiritual mentors and…
View Post“Nuns in the West I:” Interviews
Buddhist and Catholic monastics open discussion on various views.
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 16-21
These verses consider the results of difficult relationships with spiritual mentors and trace them back…
View PostWheel of Sharp Weapons: Verses 10-15
How mental suffering is a result of suffering inflicted on others, and bearing hardships that…
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