Category: Buddhist Wisdom
The Paradox of Happiness
Real happiness is what we all want, but none of our strategies for finding it seem to work. Maybe it's the search for happiness that makes us unhappy. John Tarrant has some thoughts on why the Buddha smiles.
The Practice and Philosophy of the Buddhist Path
Once you understand, through study, what the Buddha is saying about his own awakening, you are already within the fiery process of the path.
Fully Engaged in Body, Speech and Mind
Anne Klein on the foundational practices of Dzogchen, through which we can meet the dharma with our entire being and dissolve conceptual mind into the “great expanse” that is liberation.
Forum: The Importance of Study
The Importance of Study: a panel discussion with Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, John Daido Loori, Christina Feldman and Georges Dreyfus.
What is a Moktak?
A moktak as defined by Chong Hae Sunim, a Zen abbot, and Master Seung Sahn, a teacher of Korean Zen Buddhism.
Attending to the Deathless
“When the heart is released from clinging,” said the Buddha, “then consciousness does not land anywhere. That state, I tell you, is without sorrow, afflication or despair.” Ajahn Amaro on abiding in the consciousness that is completely beyond conditioned phenomena—neither supporting them nor supported by them.
Directly Experience the Nature of Mind
Instruction on Mahamudra vipashyana meditation by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche.
The Cushion Or the Couch?
Psychotherapy & Buddhism, according to pschyoteraphist Barry Magid.
That Problematic “Self”
In the fourth and final post in his series on the Buddhist concept of "self," Dr. Reginald Ray talks about how we maintain our "self" and therefore suffer.