Before Thinking
“If you want to understand your true self, you must return to ‘before thinking,’ because you are not your thinking.” …
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The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others.
“The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much …
When Richard Gere first met His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Richard Gere: I had been a Zen student for five or six years before I met His Holiness in India. …
New Heart Sutra translation by Thich Nhat Hanh
Avalokiteshvara while practicing deeply with the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore, suddenly discovered that all of the …
Know your mistaken views
Past has passed away. Future has not arrived. Present does not remain. Nothing is reliable; everything must change. You hold …
Why then take offense at living beings?
I am not angry with my bile and other humors— Fertile source of pain and suffering! Why then take offense …
Thinking of Siddhartha Gautama as having been an ordinary being who faced the same difficulties
The difference in how the Pāli and Sanskrit traditions describe the Buddha need not confuse us. We don’t have to …
We share a collective karma with one another on this earth
We should not feel like we are strangers to each other but rather that we share a collective karma with …
All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy.
All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy. All the happiness there …
The true meaning of freedom from suffering
The duality of sadness and happiness is the basic cause of suffering. Cessation of suffering, which is nirvana, means going …