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By Barbara O'Brien Buddhism teaches that harboring the three poisons leads to evil (akusala) and suffering (dukkha). The Three Poisons...

By Bankei When we look back on this life, we see that when people are born, no one has thoughts of joy, sadness, hatred, or bitterness. Ar...

“Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one’s own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the e...

“in the universal womb that is boundless space all forms of matter and energy occur as flux of the four elements, but all are empty forms...

“freedom attends reality: free at the core, any effort is wasted; timelessly free, no release is needed; free in itself, no corrective is...

“pure mind is like the empty sky, without memory, supreme meditation; it is our own nature, unstirring, uncontrived, and wherever that ab...

According to the lower schools of Buddhist thought, when a being, like Sakyamuni Buddha, attains mahaparinirvana and passes away, he ceases ...

At all times, do not lose courage in your inner awareness; uplift yourself, while assuming a humble position in your outer demeanor. Follow...

Four Characteristics That Define Buddhism By  Barbara O'Brien , About.com   In the 26 centuries since the life of the Buddha, Buddhism ...

I am a big fan of Brad Warner. Although my own Buddhist background and training is more orthodox than what Brad offers, I find his tack re...

Octavio Campo - Buddha

Not to commit evils, But to do all that is good, And to keep one's thought pure-- This is the teaching of all the Buddhas .

By Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche The Fourth Noble Truth The truth of the path is called "the truth of the path" because a path l...

By Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche The Third Noble Truth The third noble truth is the cessation of suffering through which it is explained t...

By Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche The Second Noble Truth The truth of universal origination is an English translation of the name Buddha hi...

By Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche The First Noble Truth The first noble truth is the full understanding of suffering. Of course, in an obvi...

By Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche One needs to understand that when the Buddha taught, he was not teaching as a great scholar who wanted to de...

'Good man, the Bodhisattva, Mahasattva, takes prajna-paramita as his mother, clever expedients as his father, dana-paramita as his wet-...

Prepare for this meditation by doing a few minutes of breathing meditation (focus your attention on your breath) to calm your mind. Then br...