Secrecy in the Dhamma?
The following is an email I answered with regard to the last blog entry on the vipassana knowledges. I thought that many people might have the same reservations and would like to share my take on this with you: Well,…
Vipassana Knowledge and the Path to Nibbana
This posting is going to be a bit cryptic…at least for most people. The chart which you see below is a compilation of many observations from the progress of Vipassana meditators on their journey from Samsara to personal experience of…
The 4 Jhana
A Howto: Go to a secluded place Close your eyes, take up a meditation topic and concentrate, for example on breathing in and out. Repeat ONE thought, bringing back the mind and trying to “establish” it on this one topic…
Pali Canon Search
… If you want to search through the Buddhist Pali Canon in English, you can use this Google custom search: search.nibbanam.com This is like a meta search engine: Many of the big online sutta repositories complement each other. Using this…
Palikanon Suche in Deutsch / Palikanon search in German
Tonight I launched a new webpage/service on nibbanam.com. It’s a custom Google search for all Buddhist Pali Canon translations in German – something which I had in mind for a long time. I was using site:palikanon.com quite too often and…
Western Theravada
I just found this very interesting letter by Hans Gruber in the Asian Tribune (June 8, 2007) regarding a controversy around the Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahathera. The observations made by Gruber in the following few lines are very notable. I think…