What keeps us from awakening?
At the very center of the graphic chart of all the Buddhist teachings are the Three Marks of Existence: anicca,
At the center of your being, you have the answer. – Lao Tzu
At the very center of the graphic chart of all the Buddhist teachings are the Three Marks of Existence: anicca,
The definition of awakening (or enlightenment) is ending greed, aversion and delusion — The Three Poisons. It’s pretty easy to
One of my students said that the least interesting thing to her in the study of Buddhism is enlightenment. ‘That’s
Doesn’t it seem like just when things can’t get any worse, they do? This week in the United States has been
Twenty-six hundred years ago, under a tree, a seeker named Siddhartha Gautama sat in meditation, determined not to stop meditating
When we sit in meditation, the untrained mind naturally runs amok. No fault there. We live in a culture of
In our ongoing exploration of the Seven Factors of Awakening, we’ve been looking at the factor of Tranquility, which
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” – W. B. Yeats, ‘Second Coming’ Even when our personal lives are satisfactory,
In our investigation of the Seven Factors of Awakening, we arrive at Tranquility. Ahhhh. The word has such a sense
Like many Western insight meditation teachers, I share the Buddha’s teachings as I understand them, but don’t always refer by