Exhibited at the entrance of the Honda Collection Hall is this bicycle equipped with an auxiliary engine made from a small, remodeled unit that had served as a...
Our feelings of comfort and sense of security are dependent upon other people's perception of us and their affection for us. It is almost as if human affection...
When we practice, initially, as a basis we control ourselves, stopping the bad actions which hurt others as much as we can. This is defensive. After that, when...
DHARMA THE CAT SAYS: "Every action produces like consequences. Harmful acts produce harmful consequences, and beneficial acts produce beneficial consequences....
Ancient Pali texts liken meditation to the process of taming a wild elephant. The procedure in those days was to tie a newly captured animal to a post with a...
It is noteworthy... that the story of the Buddha's spiritual journey climaxes with his enlightenment but does not end there. Even as he was savouring the...
We can see that implicit in all five precepts is the age-old Indian principle of ahimsa: not harming - either others or oneself. We can safely extend this to...
We must all be the "friend and companion of all people" to deal with today's problems, whether they be problems of human rights, peace or the environment. If I...
The challenge for Western Buddhists is to apply the Buddhist principles taught many centuries ago - in an age of relatively localised social and economic...
Buddhism can help us... by encouraging us to be compassionate and non-violent with ourselves as well as others. Many of us avoid an honest examination of our...
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and, most important of...
As Shanntideva says, there are many beings to whom one can make charity, but there are very few beings with respect to whom one can practice patience, and what...
There is more faith in an honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Tennyson When I was in training at the monastery, I noticed that sometimes people...
Early Buddhist texts embody essential concepts of a viable system of education. In the Buddha's view, true education stems from unshakable inward peace born of...
Every member in a given society is a leader in himself, in the Buddhist view, in the sense that he owes some obligations towards its harmonious upkeep. Broadly...
"Discipline" is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But...
When little obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practitioner does not lose faith and begin to doubt, but has the discernment to recognize...
For a half-century, the United States Postal Service hired so many maintenance employees with military experience. Maintenance managers - some of whom were...
Universal truth No. 2: "Pulling out the weeds gives nourishment to the plant" The U.S. Army is famous for its "be all that you can be" slogan. But, a wide...
Universal truth No. 4: "You cannot bend the wind; you can move the sails" Limiting the team concept to maintenance would only address half the equation....
Dwelling at Savatthi...."Monks, before my Awakening, when I was just an unawakened Bodhisatta, the realization came to me: 'How this world has fallen on...
"Then the thought occurred to me, 'Aging and death don't exist when what doesn't exist? From the cessation of what comes the cessation of aging and death?'...
"It is just as if a man, traveling along a wilderness track, were to see an ancient path, an ancient road, traveled by people of former times. He would follow...
Many people who approach the practice of Buddhism are willing to sacrifice one or two hours of their day in order to perform some ritual practice or engage in...
One day when they were in the forest, the attention of Buddha and his disciples was drawn to a fox that seemed restless. In silence they watched the animal....
Taking life seriously does not mean spending our whole lives meditating as if we were living in the Himalaya Mountains or in the old days in Tibet. In the...
The container, forty feet long, spans eight volunteers in length. Earlier this year, I was blessed with the amazing and memorable opportunity to participate in...
Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. In fact, many kinds of cleverness...
A young man named Sigala used to worship the six cardinal points of the heavens - east, south, west, north, nadir and zenith - in obeying and observing the...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
