The Four Forces for Overcoming Destructive Patterns
The Four Forces are a traditional Buddhist practice sequence that provide a structure for overcoming the influence of patterns of thought, speech and behavior that cause suffering. The four forces are…
Read MoreThe Experience of Breathing as the Object of Shamatha – Beginner’s Mediation
From the Sanity Sit on May 12, 2021.
Read MoreNew Podcast up today
Check our our new podcast, a talk in the Seven Points of Mind Training Series—on Point 3-Aphorism 13: Contemplate the Kindness of Everyone In a world like ours today, how to do you contemplate the kin…
Read MoreRitual Objects: the Bell and Dorje
A bell and dorje are ritual implements in Tibetan Buddhism? What is their use and meaning?
Read MoreWhen I say, “Just let go.”
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of fear. She let go of judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of inde…
Read MoreAfter the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path
The Fourth Noble Truth said clearly and plainly that there is a way out of suffering, a path to genuine and lasting liberation. The Buddha outlined it in several sutras in detail. This path is divided…
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