“Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside,” one chocolate lover famously said. “All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt,” concluded another. Are you a chocolate lover, too? If you are, try a simple chocolate meditation script provided in this article. For best results, imagine that … Read more
Ancient scriptures of Theravada Buddhism are one of the best ways to learn more about the Buddha’s teachings. And the most prolific writer in this field is Bhikkhu Bodhi. A kindly man has observed that Buddhist monk Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi presents to the Western world the intellectual equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope: Peering … Read more
“Your life is now,” Eckhart Tolle wrote while contemplating the art of living in the present moment. When you live in the moment, you’re free of psychological time – past and future. You no longer regret what happened in the past and not afraid of what might happen in the future. All your attention is … Read more
Can you be an atheist and a Buddhist? From what I’ve read, I can tell you that seeking an answer to this question will surface two groups of people – those who’ll tell you that it’s possible and those who’ll tell you that it’s not. Among the former is Stephen Batchelor, the author of … Read more
What are the twelve links of dependent origination in Buddhism? A better question to ask, in my opinion, would be, “Why do we suffer?” In Buddhism, the main source of our suffering is traced to our boundless cravings, contained in the Second Noble Truth. We crave many things but the most powerful among them … Read more