You Don’t Know For Sure Who Is Right
This is a hard one to stomach, but it’s true. How can we possibly know? We can hold long-cherished ideals, but the truth is, since
Category: Delusion
The Mind
Just as a fletcher straightens an arrow shaft, even so the discerning man straightens his mind – so fickle and unsteady, so difficult to guard.
SIMILE: The Six Animals
“Suppose that a man, wounded and festering, were to go into a swampy jungle. Its sharp-bladed grasses would pierce his feet; its thorns would scratch
An Effective Way to Work With Our Mind
This thing we call mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can’t
Knowledge & Goodness
Knowledge is like a knife. You hone it until it’s sharp—really sharp. Then you put it away. The knife can cause both benefits and harm.
Understanding Intention
There’s an old saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but that’s not really the case. The road to hell is
The 5 Precepts
The five precepts are a set of training rules that the Buddha laid out for his followers. Buddhist monks follow over 200 training rules, but
Subduing Hatred
“These are five ways of subduing hatred by which, when hatred arises in a monk, he should wipe it out completely. Which five? “When one
Effort
Time and again the Buddha has stressed the need for effort, for diligence, exertion, and unflagging perseverance. The reason why effort is so crucial is