The word Atammayata literally means, “the state of not being made up by, or made up from, that (thing or condition).” “The genuine collapse of illusion, no separateness of subject and object.” As I was reading this morning, I was…
I was reading an article this morning by someone who had tried Buddhism and found it to simply be the flip side of Christianity. The way he sees it, Christians believe in achieving Heaven once they die and Buddhist think…
Why do you thank me? What have I done? Does the tree thank the clouds for the rain? Do the birds thank the tree for a shelter? Do the flowers thank the Sun for its rays? Do the cows thanks…
“A cloud is a constantly changing visible mass of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended by air in the Earth’s atmosphere.” Now let’s see, I am also a visible mass. I am composed of water and air. I am…
I stumbled across a new Pali word in my studies recently. This word is one of the Ten Paramitas, or Ten Perfections that one must develop to become a Buddha. The new word is Sacca (pronounced Suh-cheh), a Pali word…