Observing the Defilements
Buddhist practice is all about understanding suffering, and then based on that understanding, ending it. This is what is …
Dhamma Letters
Watching the Sense Doors, but Staying Home
People frequently report being bothered by something when they try to meditate. It might be a noise or visual …
Playful Practice
For meditation practice to be sustainable and fruitful, one must bring the proper degree of effort to one’s practice. …
Practice Permeating Daily Life
When we come together to practice in the meditation hall, or when we do our daily practice at home for the time we allot …
The Light of Awareness
Our insight practice is aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating mental suffering. The teachings of the Buddha tell …
Externalize It
As a psychologist, one of the forms of therapy that I’ve found very interesting, and surprisingly effective, is …
Not Following Contact
I am doing physical therapy for chronic and worsening back pain. I go in and the therapist gives me different exercises …
Mind, Body & World Liberate Together
This life of ours consists in this mind, body, and world. In everyday consciousness, we tend to view these as separate …
Letting Go
Spiritual teachers often speak of the need to let go of things. We are told we need to let go of material things, of …