Tag: Triple Gem

Permanently impermanent

That’s what I am facing today, everlasting impermanence. These feelings I am having right now are not going to last. These thoughts I am expressing are not going to remain. This body that I am residing in is not going…

Why are you so ignorant?

Actually, why am I so ignorant? That’s the real question. Ignorance, I am finding, is the cause of Samsara. Constantly grasping for worldly desires, is like rowing a boat with one oar in the water. You can keep putting in…

What’s up Upasaka?

Upasaka (masculine) and Upasika (feminine) are the Buddhist terms for laypeople that have taken the Five Precepts and are devout followers of Buddha’s teaching and the Triple Gem. The five vows to be held by upāsakas are referred to as…