Buddhist Channel had an article today about the topic of Buddhist Christians or Christian Buddhists having to practice in secrecy :-). Well, they do not fear angry Buddhists but somehow their own Christian fellow believers. Why is that? Monotheistic wrath?…
…I would encourage you to read this post first. Otherwise you will have a hard time understanding what is said next: Now, interpreting “iti pajanati” directly as a way to meditate, even Buddha’s 4 noble truths become themselves a theme…
Or: How can I desire Nibbana if it is supposed to be the end of desires? Part of mainstream Buddhism and supported by a notion from the late Mahayana school of thought is the proposition that you cannot achieve Nibbana…
Or: The meaning of samyojana The Buddha defined four stages during the emancipation from Samsara: The stream enterer – someone who realized nibbana (magga-phala) through insight meditation for the first time with a remainder of 7 lives left in samsara…
Can you hear background sounds while in jhana? This canonical analysis draws directly from the Pali Tipitaka to resolve the longstanding debate between two competing views of jhana absorption — and includes a detailed map of states of mind.
Have you ever wondered where the Buddha’s “meditation instructions” are? Why doesn’t he talk about them in the Pali Canon? Or does he? Well, he does… In fact, he cannot be any clearer explaining how exactly your practice of Buddhist…
Or: How to recognize an enlightened being. Again, this sounds like a Zen story. But it is not. It is from the early days of Buddhist practice when Sri Lanka (in this case) was full of “Living Buddhist Masters”. Enjoy…
Frank Snow has made his newly developed Chatta Sangayana Tipitaka v.4 very accessible, especially when it comes to the dictionary. Here you can find a zip archive containing Buddhadatta’s Concise Pali-English and English-Pali dictionary in the correct format for the…
Even if you may be familiar with Tipitaka.Org’s online Tipitaka search engine, you might not know that this search engine is, indeed, open source software and free to download: http://www.ksana.tw/ So with a 60MB download, you get a web-based complete…
Why did the Buddha emphasize, over and over again, the necessity to keep the 5 basic precepts PURE in order to progress in meditation? Keep them for a couple of days while meditating and you will know! Nothing helps to…