I like to go to the local cemetery for walking meditation. It is relatively quiet, hardly anyone comes there, and the paths are straight and plentiful. There are even a few trees and rose bushes...and the human residents are very quiet indeed. Anyway, I had finally succeeded in just being with the s...

When I am at work I have the tendency to get very frustrated with whats going on whether it be with co workers, customers, etc. I sometimes have to let go of people too. I dont think its possible for me to maintain my buddhist teachings at work. Any suggestions? Shaun Hi shaun, before I became a Bu...

Thanks for posting that wonderful and instructive sutta Mike.

A few years ago, I saw something horrible and terrifying happen to a member of my family... Leafy, I just re-read that, and realized that most of us here have probably not seen what you saw that day...please accept my apologies if I seemed to underestimate the impact if must have had on you. If I h...

I'm not a gambling type, but if I were I'd be willling to bet that the scholar / mental speculator who penned that article is not a Buddhist...hmm and I wonder what the underlying agenda was for writing such nonsense. But if he wants to, ten cans of baked beans a day should do the job for him. He c...

I'm not a gambling type, but if I were I'd be willling to bet that the scholar / mental speculator who penned that article is not a Buddhist...hmm and I wonder what the underlying agenda was for writing such nonsense. But if he wants to, ten cans of baked beans a day should do the job for him. He ca...

A few years ago, I saw something horrible and terrifying happen to a member of my family, and as a result became painfully aware that I am not and will never be safe, and that horrible things can happen to anybody at any time. Sort of an unpleasant, throw-you-into-the-deep-end crash course in imper...

The problem I encounter is not with my knees but my lower back. This can be remedied for most people. My problem relates primarily to the "tailbone" (whatever it's really called) being too horizontal (compared to most people). Chiropractors have been able to make a bit of improvement on i...

It just occurred to me that the Buddha wanted us all to live in concord, in unity, as much as possible. Furthermore, to cause a schism in the Sangha is one of the 'kammas with immediate result' (in the next world), and a kamma-obstruction (although it could possibly be argued that the kind of schism...

As for me, I think that bhikkhuni lineage can't be restored simply because of the lack of theravada bhikkhuni preceptor. All bhikkshuni preceptors are of Mahayana-Dhamma. So then, any theravada bhikkhuni is simpy "mahayana bhikkhuni practising theravada". Dhamma-Vinaya is one whole thing,...

Recently I got this image or idea, that the Dhamma and Discipline was this large garden of medicinal plants. The One who established the garden (Buddha) was such an expert doctor that anyone who was not too ill, and who came to him, he could determine exactly which plants were needed, in what dosage...

Well I can vouch that for now, the mess at my place is due to defilement...this story does give me hope, however, that one day I might have a far better excuse for it

Hi Darwid, "Science Definition The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge. How do we define science? According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of science is "knowledge attained through study or practice," or "knowledge cov...

Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could clear up a confusion on my part that I noticed recently. Being new to Buddhism I was always under the impression that Buddha walked away from his wife and son (and name him something like "fetter"). Yet through reading some Sutta's linked from this ...