Heartful Selflessness

STUDENT QUESTION: Can this pure giving-heart be a link-breaker within Dependent Origination then? Can one act without clinging (attaching) and […]

The Flight of Consciousness

As for consciousness and the self, Many people wonder, “how does a ‘person’ transmigrates from this life to the next.” […]

Selflessness is Samādhi

Reading from SN II 12.23 Causes for Liberation   “What is the cause for renewal of being?” Or renewal of […]

The Experience of Nibbāna

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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:] […]

Holding on to Impermanence

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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.