Heartful Selflessness
STUDENT QUESTION: Can this pure giving-heart be a link-breaker within Dependent Origination then? Can one act without clinging (attaching) and […]
Nibbāna
The Release From Perceptual Awareness Excerpt: DN 2 Potthapāda The Release from Awareness [The Buddha] ‘Up to here […]
Wise Friendship
To remember these wonderful, wholesome ways where really true happiness lies. Wonderfully, the Buddha begins with wise friendship, ‘kalyana mittata’ […]
Gratitude is Awareness
Gratitude is, in fact, very close to awareness. It is one of these states of the heart or the […]
An Open, Unforced Samādhi
The Special Samādhi of the Buddhas “This Samadhi is not practiced by unrighteous people.” Now, we can concentrate […]
Life is as such…
https://youtu.be/SbmqZhhZKvw A video made by lay devotees, from shots of Bhante Ānanda walking to his forest kuti in Sri Lanka. […]
The Escape
These 5 hindrances, whatever they are, they’re just doing the same thing in the mind–– just […]
Life and Practice in Harmony
And the 5th is: “I am aware while entering it, and aware when emerging from it.” So, this whole […]
Bhante’s Path to Upasampadā
In 2017, Bhante Ānanda chose to ‘go forth’, relinquishing lay-life for the purpose of developing the higher mind. After two years […]
Seeing Hindrances
And we continue letting go. And whatever arises, whatever arises, it is just a hindrance. Even you thinking: “I can’t […]