Buddhist Worldview
An overview of core Buddhist concepts: the four truths of the aryas, rebirth, karma, refuge, and more.
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Karma and your life: The results of karma
An understanding of karma gives us the power to create the kind of experiences we…
View PostKarma and your life: Questions and answers, part 2
Responses to questions on karma and how we can create the causes in this life…
View PostKarma and your life: Questions and answers, part 1
Responses to questions on karma in daily life situations and how to use an understanding…
View PostKarma and your life: The four characteristics of karma
By knowing what karma is and the general characteristics we can bring an awareness to…
View PostAreligious Buddhism: Is there such a thing?
Examining the practices and principles of the mindfulness movement and secular Buddhism. How secular Buddhism…
View PostThe four immeasurables in the Pali and Sanskrit trad...
How the Pali and Sanskrit traditions present the four immeasurable attitudes and how to practice…
View PostThe three higher trainings
How the three higher trainings relate to each other and why we need all three…
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 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…
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