The Theravada School is one tradition of at least eighteen lineages that developed from the teachings of the single Buddha. Each of these schools differed
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Email: A Reflective Love (10.8.2020)
Dear Gillian When I sit quietly, reality is a direct experience. It is deep, loving, caring and boundless. There is a ‘source’ but language cannot
In Love with a Moon Branch (月枝)…
In Love with a Moon Branch (月枝)… Bright mind. Bright smile… Shining thoughts, Shining words. Lord Buddha. Mao Zedong… Red – Dharma, Revolution. Lucid Wisdom.
Genuine Contemplation
‘More than other believers, the contemplative ought to be an “expert in atheism.” Does he believe? Perhaps, yet without believing, it seems to him. He
The Four Brahmaviharas of Buddhism
Although what might be translated as the ‘Abode of God’, this Buddhist term, as usual, completely re-interprets this earlier Brahmanic term, so that it becomes both logical
A Guiding Note on Essential Bodhisattvahood
The Buddha explains clearly, in every expression of his teaching, that consciousness and physical matter are not two different things, even though they may be
