Two Kinds of Language, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
The word 'Buddha’, for example, in everyday language refers to the historical enlightened being, Gotama Buddha. It refers to a physical man of flesh and bone that was born in India over two thousand...
View ArticleNot being Buddha is suffering
'One thing I teach, dukkha and release from dukkha.' The Buddha
View ArticleBrothers and sisters in suffering, old age, sickness and death, by Ajahn Sumedho
If the Buddha had started with the teaching that there is no suffering, none of us would have believed it: There certainly is! He certainly got that wrong! So he started with: There is suffering...
View ArticleIntuitive Insight, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
There is a word in Buddhism that covers this completely, the word sunnata, or emptiness, emptiness of selfhood, emptiness of any essence that we might have a right to cling to with all our might as...
View ArticleDark Side of Life, by John Snelling
Unfortunately, one of the ills of modern society is that it's in headlong flight from the truth of the human condition, from the fact that we all, without exception, are subject to old age, sickness...
View ArticleLike a handful of fallen leaves, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
The matter of "I" and "mine" is the single essential point of the Buddhist teachings. It is the one thing which must be completely purged. It follows that here lies the knowing, understanding, and...
View ArticleSpiritual Disease, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Every one of us has the disease of 'I' and 'mine', and we absorb more germs every time we see a form, smell an odour, touch a tangible object, taste a flavour, or think in the manner of an ignorant...
View ArticleEmptiness True Health, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
The medicine which cures the disease is the knowledge and practice that gives birth to emptiness. When emptiness has appeared it will be the cure of the disease and alter recovery from the disease...
View ArticleThe Problem of Dukkha, by John Aske
Half the problem of Dukkha is the barriers we put up against it.
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