Right Effort involves work. It’s a steering of the mind. You are recognizing the unwholesome, letting it go, recognizing the wholesome and feeding it, maintaining it, keeping it in being – there is work going on. The Eightfold Path is a path of action.
~Ajahn Amaro

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Buddhist Romanticism is a result of a very natural human tendency: When presented with something foreign and new, people tend to see it ...

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BDG feature: Notice the Beauty in the Present Moment

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BDG feature: Examining the Transmission of Buddhist Teachings: Shakyamuni Buddha’s Original Reason for Appearing in the World

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BDG news: Buddhist Monks Begin Pilgrimage for Peace from Texas to Washington, DC

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BDG feature: The First Blue Sky: The Paradox of Perception and Reality

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What is the mind?

The mind doesn’t have any form. That which receives impressions, ...

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BDG feature: Love, Celebration, and Self-forgetting: What Matters at the End of Life?

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Our teacher, Ajahn Chah, taught us to practice with integrity. It means doing the right thing, whether you are alone or with others. You know what you do, even if no one else sees you.
~Ajahn Kalyano

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BDG feature: How Do We Mourn Someone We Didn’t Like? A Gentle Philosophical Inquiry

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BDG feature: Book Review: Buddhist Dances: Movement and Mind, Part 1

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BDG feature: Metta Pulls the Plug

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BDG feature: The Path of Devotion

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BDG news: Online Dharma: 84000 Celebrates 15 Years of Translating the Words of the Buddha

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