101 koans of Zen. #Buddhism
on 02026-07-21stories of Budai (Putai), including when he put down his sack as an explanation of Zen when questioned by Bailu Heshang and Baofu Congzhan. #Buddhism #history
on 02026-07-21PG’s copy of #The-Light-of-Asia #Buddhism #ebook. #religion
on 02025-12-16"The Light of Asia" #Buddhism #ebook originally published in 01892, one of the first English-language books on Buddhism. #religion
on 02025-12-16#Buddhism #video of Thich Nhat Hanh talking about “hungry ghosts” who are still alive in the flesh but do not know how to trust to receive love. #religion
on 02025-10-07#Deutsche-Welle explains how most men in #Thailand become monks for a while. #Theravada #Buddhism #education #schooling #religion
on 02024-11-27in #Thailand nearly all men become monks in wats for a while in their youth, a quarter of a million at any given time. I’m curious how old this tradition is. #Theravada #Buddhism #education #schooling #religion
on 02024-11-27#Thich-Nhat-Hanh on dependent arising (#paticcasamuppada) of clouds and paper, sunshine, and observation #Buddhism #religion
on 02024-09-12criticism of westernized #Buddhism: “Some meditators claim that meditation is the cure for human psychology, in so many words, and this is obviously incorrect.” #religion
on 02023-01-15the Great Mass of Suffering sutra. #Buddhism #religion
on 02023-01-15renunciation and asceticism play a huge role in #Buddhism. “I think Consensus “Buddhism” has more in common with liberal Christianity than Buddhism.” By a tantrika advocating #tantra: “However, throughout Sutrayana, there’s the idea that permanence is the only genuinely desirable state … Tantra, on the other hand, accepts change, values temporary pleasures, and rejects nirvana.” #religion
on 02023-01-15discussion of problems in Westernized #Buddhism #religion
on 02023-01-15Chanda Sutta: when desire is desirable in #Buddhism #religion
on 02022-05-21food for the factors of awakening, Āhāra Sutta (SN 46:51) #Buddhism #religion
on 02022-02-09short sutta on how he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. #Buddhism #religion
on 02021-12-17The Fruits of the Contemplative Life, Sāmaññaphala Sutta, DN 2. This contains the list of games the Buddha would not play, some basic rules of conduct for monks (though not the whole vinaya), supernatural powers, the first four jhanas, and forbidding holier-than-thou arguments. #Buddhism #religion
on 02021-12-17MN 131 PTS: M iii 187 Bhaddekaratta Sutta: An Auspicious Day translation cc-by-sa #Buddhism #religion
on 02021-12-11“An Anthropologist From Mars” Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s take on what #Buddhism teaches about priorities. "So try to face the ways of the world with equanimity and not let yourself get sucked into the narratives or systems of values that people use to tie you in, to keep you going along with their view of the world. After all, they want to make sure that everyone around them shares the same values so that they can feel comfortable, so they don’t have to face the huge abyss inside their hearts, the huge emptiness, the huge void, when those values are exposed for what they are. And their way of avoiding that is to rest assured that everybody else believes the way they do, thinks the way they do, and acts the way they do. But you’re not performing them any service by playing along.” #religion
on 02021-12-01#Buddhism. “When you think these eight thoughts of a great person and become a person who can attain at will, without trouble or difficulty, these four jhānas—heightened mental states providing a pleasant abiding in the here & now—then your medicine of strong-smelling urine will seem to you to be just like the various tonics of a householder or householder’s son: ghee, fresh butter, oil, honey, and molasses sugar. As you live contented, it will serve for your delight, for a comfortable abiding, for non-agitation, & for alighting on unbinding.”
on 02021-11-14sutta on sexual bondage in #Buddhism
on 02021-11-11Cula-viyuha Sutta: “Dwelling on their own views, quarreling, different skilled people say: ‘Whoever knows this, understands Dhamma. Whoever rejects this, is imperfect.’ Thus quarreling, they dispute: ‘My opponent’s a fool & unskilled.’ Which of these statements is true when all of them say they are skilled?” #Buddhism
on 02021-11-05the Mahā Nidāna Sutta on the nature of cause and effect. #Buddhism
on 02021-11-02Thanissaro Bhikkhu's translation of the Brahmajāla Sutta (DN 1) where Gotama talks about all the things he doesn’t talk about, like the history and nature of the universe #Buddhism
on 02021-09-17Ken McLeod (or Tokme Zongpo?) on happiness in #Buddhism and on the practice "taking and giving".
on 02021-06-04a translation by Thich Nhat Hanh of the Mahamangala Sutta about happiness. #Buddhism
on 02021-06-04Thich Nhat Hanh's “5 Practices for Nurturing Happiness”: “The art of happiness is the art of suffering well.” From No Mud, No Lotus. #Buddhism
on 02021-06-04advice on #meditation in #Buddhism
on 02021-02-20Buddhist Sakayama priest Federico Andino maintains a Tumblr where he talks about #Buddhism.
on 02016-01-24