With mettā, things are no longer seen as personal, there’s not me and you, ...
In the Sikkhāpada Sutta, the Buddha says:
And what is a bad person?
This is the Buddha’s attitude toward anger. It’s not that ...
The Buddha encouraged us to practice until we have tamed our mind. We don't have to tame other people's minds. They have to learn that for themselves.
~Ajahn Kalyano
The Dhamma is a condition that can cut through and reduce the problems and difficulties in the human heart—reducing them, reducing them until ...
Suppose there was a tree that was complete with branches and foliage. Its shoots, bark, softwood, and heartwood would grow to fullness. ...
So when we go to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha for Refuge, this isn’t just a catch-phrase; it’s a practice of ...
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By reflecting, you bring into consciousness the state of conditions...
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As for the path of practice, it’s nothing far away. It’s right within you: in your body and mind. It’s the same ...
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There’s no fire like passion,
no loss like anger,
no pain like the aggregates,
no ease other than peace.
~Dhammapada 202
When you look at the four noble truths and the fact that the Buddha is taking suffering as the main problem, you should focus your attention on...
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When we do not understand the reality of seeing, we may get lost in the things we see instead of recognizing that seeing is happening.
Seeing is such an obvious object that we may not recognize it as such, simply because we don't yet understand it.
~Sayadaw Tejaniya
People without any inner quality are like vagrants with no home to live in. They have to be exposed ...
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Hunger: the foremost illness.
Fabrications: the foremost pain.
For one knowing this truth
as it has come to be,
Unbinding
is the foremost ease.
~Dhammapada 203