Wonderful. Many helpful responses. Thank you, all. Metta.

I know this is probably a common question but I can't think of where to look up the answer. Is there anywhere in the Suttas where Buddha explains why realisation of anatta leads to compassion? If there is no self, and one realises this, wouldn't they more like stop treating everybody else as individ...

Thanks for that. I'd have to think about that place too. I am a native Australian and hold a passport so it would be less complicated, although I'm slightly more keen on going somewhere in the East where the sasana is strong culturally. Although, saying that, reading their website, I like the sound ...

It's less about being a bookworm and more of a concern about not getting enough instruction in more than just rudimentary Dhamma.

Hi everyone, I'm 21 and live in London. For a long time, I felt dissatisfaction with experiences that seemed to satisfy shortly and yet never fulfill. My studies into philosophy, sociology and psychology bred in me a vision of the delusion and control in modern society. It was by sheer coincidence t...

I have found so far two english translations, an older one from the Pali Text Society and a more modern one by Bhikkhu Nanamoli. I took a look at the Nanamoli one and I'm a bit worried that the language is so modern, it loses some of the technicalities of language that appear to be present in the ol...

I'd requested to join. I would like to attempt to keep the 8 precepts on these days. I enjoy keeping them when I am at Amaravati Monastery.

Hello to everybody here. My name is Zac and I am 21 years old, originally from Australia but moved to the UK 7 years ago and have been living here in London ever since. I've only just started out on the Theravada path - I come from a background of Western Occultism and Magick, and I really did think...