Emphasizing a mindful approach to education

Tara Frances takes us to the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre, a Theravada Buddhist retreat center that is at the forefront of Buddhist evolution in Australia.

Re-experiencing the childlike joy inherent in meditative concentration

Insights from the Panditarama Meditation Center in Yangon

100 years since Anagarika Shri Munindra's birth

A few years ago, when I attended my first Vipassana meditation retreat, it felt like the worst imaginable situation. I had never ever shut my mouth or my mind for even 5 minutes; leave alone for the r

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” – The Buddha   Introduction   So many are living stressful lives filled with hatred, greed, anger and other unwholesome states of mind. Our he

Introduction   There are some satisfactory definitions of ‘crime’ and ‘criminal'. But the question of ‘what is a crime ?’ has baffled thinkers on ethics for centur

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Working like a physician in his diagnosis of disease and treatment prescription, Buddha teaches us that suffering in this world is due to too much attachment to one’s desires. To eliminate the c

In the Buddhist tradition, there is abundant literature on Walking Meditation. The reason is obvious. Walking does not require any tools, or preparation or expensive capital investment. This would be

Introduction   Koan is a Chan case study that is to be intuitively contemplated to awaken Gnosis. It may be formatted in the forms of story, dialogue, question and statement. Gnosis is self-discover

My Dhamma greetings to you all,        As you all know, India is the birthplace of Buddhism. After the Buddha's Mahaparinirvana, all his disciples assembled to compile his teachings. They were comp