ALL WINNERS, NO LOSERS
All Winners, No Losers The Buddha’s Teachings on Animosity & Forgiveness When you forgive someone who’s wronged you, it doesn’t
Read moreAll Winners, No Losers The Buddha’s Teachings on Animosity & Forgiveness When you forgive someone who’s wronged you, it doesn’t
Read moreWisdom over Justice A few years ago, in one of its more inspired moments, The Onion reported a video released by a
Read moreWorlds & Their Cessation The Buddha’s Strategic View of the Cosmos Recently, while teaching a retreat sponsored by a vipassanā
Read moreThe Streams of Emotion There’s a part of the mind that doesn’t like the emotions the Buddha labels as unskillful—things
Read moreThe Karma of Now Why the Present Moment Isn’t the Goal Have you ever wondered why Buddhist meditation focuses so
Read moreFirst Things First If you were to ask people familiar with Buddhism to identify its two most important wisdom teachings,
Read moreDid the Buddha Teach Free Will? As with so many other issues, the Buddha took a middle path between the
Read moreIn the Eyes of the Wise The Buddha’s Teachings on Honor & Shame Several years back, I led a retreat
Read moreHonest to Goodness “Let an observant person come—one who is not fraudulent, not deceitful, one of an honest nature. I
Read moreFirst Things First Essays on the Buddhist Path Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Copyright Copyright 2018 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu This work is
Read moreAbbreviations AN Aṅguttara Nikāya Dhp Dhammapada DN Dīgha Nikāya Iti Itivuttaka Khp Khuddakapāṭha MN Majjhima Nikāya Mv Mahāvagga SN Saṁyutta
Read moreGlossary Ajaan (Thai): Teacher; mentor. Pāli form: Ācariya. Arahant: A “worthy one” or “pure one;” a person whose mind is free of defilement
Read moreThe Buddha’s Last Word On the night of his total unbinding, as he was lying on his side under a
Read moreThe Not-self Strategy As the Buddha once said, the teaching he most frequently gave to his students was this: All
Read moreSilence Isn’t Mandatory Sensory Perception in the Jhānas On the afternoon of his last day, as he was walking to
Read moreUnder Your Skin The Buddha’s Teaching on Body Contemplation During my first year as a monk, when I was staying
Read moreWe Are Not One Twenty-five years ago, one of my teachers, Ajaan Suwat, led a meditation retreat in Massachusetts for
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