Essential Buddhist teachings to improve your mindfulness practice.
Every day you wake up and fall into your usual routine. But deep down you want to curl up in bed and stay there all day long, walled up from life. It’s very tempting to forget all your worries and pretend like you don’t have a job you need to go to, the bills you … Read more
We already know about the Buddha’s discovery of the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. But what do we know about the time before that and the reasons that prompted the Buddha to leave his home and become a monk? These are some of the subjects taken up in a wonderful book titled … Read more
Nirvana is considered the ultimate goal of Buddhist practice and the pinnacle of the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. But its exact definition remains ever elusive. “It has been said by one witty scholar that all we have to go on is our misconception of Nirvana, because until we have realised it … Read more
Did the Buddha say, “There is no self”? To answer this question, I turn to an article from Access to Insight written by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. He begins by saying that anatta, the Buddhist doctrine of no self, is one of the first major obstacles for Westerners trying to understand Buddhism. He writes: First, the idea … Read more