Nibbāna

The Release From Perceptual Awareness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC9tv9mrMeY 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, […]
Gratitude is Awareness

Gratitude is, in fact, very close to awareness. It is one of these states of the heart or […]
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 doing that […]
Life and Practice in Harmony

And the 5th is: “I am aware while entering it, and aware when emerging from it.” So, this whole process […]
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 […]
Radiant Calm

To radiate this calmness all around us, we first need to find it within ourselves. [From MN 2] How does […]