Buddha's Teaching on Dealing with Pain (Samyutta Nikaya 36/6) The Blessed One said, " When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats…

PATICCASAMUPPADA DEPENDENT ORIGINATION This is an introduction to the Dhamma which is based on Dependent Origination using a symbolic personification of the ideas expressed by using watercolours in Thai art. Yaksha (Giant)…

DHAMMAPADA The Path of Virtue Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammasambuddhassa Veneration to the Exalted One, the Homage-Worthy, the Perfectly Self-Enlightened The Buddha is an Arahant and he is…

1. I try to avoid killing living beings. 2. I try to avoid stealing or taking things without asking. 3. I try to avoid having sexual contact. 4. I try…

The Five Precepts Are there any commandments for a Buddhist to observe? There are no commandments but precepts to observe. What is the Pali word for precept? Sikkhapada.…

Three Characteristics of Existence (Ti-lakkhana) ti-lakkhana: the '3 characteristics of existence', or signata, are impermanence (anicca, q.v.), suffering or misery (dukkha, q.v.; s. sacca, dukkhatá), not-self (anattá, q.v.). "Whether Perfect Ones appear in the world, or whether Perfect Ones do not appear…

THE FIVE AGGREGATES OF SUFFERING (PANCAKKHANDO) What we think it is me, mine and myself is actually only five aggregates: Body (Rupa), and mind which is made up of four components: Feelings (Vedana),…

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH Vipassana is the microscope of the noble One. Samatha is the telescope of a Buddhist. Morality is the ladder leading to concentration. Concentration is the ladder leading to wisdom.…

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS 1.   The Noble Truth of Suffering Besides "suffering," other translations of the Pali word dukkha include unsatisfactoriness, dis-ease, and instability. All these words   point to the fact that no conditioned phenomenon can…