Radiant Calm
To radiate this calmness all around us, we first need to find it within ourselves. [From MN 2] How does one attend to things proper for attention? One attends to […]
Selflessness is Samādhi
Reading from SN II 12.23 Causes for Liberation https://heartdhamma.love/sutta/sn-ii-12-23/ “What is the cause for renewal of being?” Or renewal of karma, of action “Identity, should be answered. “ […]
Attachments: It’s all in the mind
This short teaching helps set the mind straight regarding attachments. Oftentimes, the simplest explanations are the easiest to digest… ‘The Smooth & Creamy Discourse on Unshakable Happiness’ […]
The Experience of Nibbāna
And Samādhi, becomes so sharp,
collectedness of mind becomes so sharp,
steadiness so sharp and so present,
awareness starts to dissolve,
it breaks down here.
The Beautiful
[One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached [15] to what is favorable. One then lives, unattached to that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, accepting what is unfavorable. One then lives, […]
Awareness in Practice
How is the liberation of the heart by Love developed? Where does it lead to?What is its limit?What is its fruit?What is its culmination? Here monks, (1) One […]
The Creation of Consciousness
“This is two main aspects of dependent origination… How it works… how consciousness arises: (1) from previous activities and conditioned activities of the mind, (2) and also, how it arises […]
Holding on to Impermanence
Now here, of course,
the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence,
in regards to these five aspects of what we call ‘me’.
is at the very core of the teaching,
it is very important,
and it’s good for us to understand that.
Virāga as Calming Down
This calming down, Virāga, is very often translated as ‘dis-passion’. And this is a problem one. Because this tends to be interpreted in a way that one needs […]
The Choice
Liberating the mind at the root of experience and choosing happiness, choosing to let go, choosing freedom.