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

Karma and your life: The results of karma

An understanding of karma gives us the power to create the kind of experiences we…

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A young woman works in the Sravasti Abbey garden.
Karma and Your Life

Karma and your life: Questions and answers, part 1

Responses to questions on karma in daily life situations and how to use an understanding…

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A young woman works in the Sravasti Abbey garden.
Karma and Your Life

Karma and your life: The four characteristics of karma

By knowing what karma is and the general characteristics we can bring an awareness to…

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Buddhist Worldview

Areligious Buddhism: Is there such a thing?

Examining the practices and principles of the mindfulness movement and secular Buddhism. How secular Buddhism…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

The four immeasurables in the Pali and Sanskrit trad...

How the Pali and Sanskrit traditions present the four immeasurable attitudes and how to practice…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The three higher trainings

How the three higher trainings relate to each other and why we need all three…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit and Chinese tradi...

Meditative absorptions beyond the ninth stage of sustained attention, and meditative paths to the union…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 5: Concentration: Sanskrit tradition

Advantageous preparations, postural position, and objects for meditation, and five faults that interfere with attaining…

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 5: Concentration: Pali teachings

Eight meditative liberations that temporarily suppress afflictions, and the super-knowledges and their compassionate purpose.

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapter 5: Higher training in concentration

Realms of existence and spheres of consciousness in gaining samadhi, and bodhisattva and tantric ethics…

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