Eleven Benefits of Practicing Metta "Monks, for one whose awareness-release through good will is cultivated, developed, pursued, handed the reins and taken as a basis, given grounding, steadied, consolidated, and well-undertaken,…

An Overview of Loving-kindness Meditation Loving-kindness meditation can be brought in to support the practice of 'bare attention' to help keep the mind open and sweet. It provides the essential…

Kalama Sutta The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry Preface The instruction of the Kalamas (Kalama Sutta) is justly famous for its encouragement of free inquiry; the spirit of the Sutta signifies a teaching…

Velama Sutta The Scale of Good Deeds Once, when the Buddha was dwelling near Savatthi at the Jeta Grove, the householder Anathapindika visited him and, after greeting him politely, sat down at one side. The Exalted One…

Numerical Sayings - Ańguttara Nikāya I [5-6] Useless – Akammanīya At Savatthi ... the Blessed Buddha said this: Bhikkhus, I know of no other single thing, as useless as the unrefined mind! The undeveloped mind, Bhikkhus, is of no use… Bhikkhus, I…

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…