Category: THE DIGEST OF DHAMMA

Do you find yourself relentlessly pursuing perfection, or do you embrace life’s inherent...

Dashrath Manjhi finished carving his inimitable path in 1982. He died in 2007 and was given a...

The Role of Kamma in Shaping Our Lives In the stillness of the night, Cynthia Jay-Brennan reaches...

In the realm of human survival, few stories match the astonishing feats accomplished when the will...

We are beginning yet another conventional year: 2021. Last year too began like this, nothing...

Although the Buddha is not with us today, we can feel his presence through his Dhamma. The path to...

As a Bodhisatta destined for Enlightenment, it took our great sage eons of time to fulfill the...

The Protectors of the World “Bhikkhus, these two bright qualities protect the world. What two?...

In our pursuit of happiness in life we are hell-bent on amassing things we love and desire both animate and inanimate, but Buddha clearly pointed out these in fact are the very things that cause us suffering.

The aging of the various beings in the various realms of beings, their growing old, loss of teeth, graying of hair, wrinkling of skin, diminishing of lifespan, maturation of the faculties. This, monks, is called aging.

In Hinduism, fasting is a method of purifying the mind. As a Bodhisatta, the ascetic Siddhartha practiced various methods of fasting; at times forgoing food for days and knew it to be fruitless when practiced to an extreme degree.

“See, Ānanda! All those conditioned phenomena have passed, ceased, and perished. So impermanent are formations, so unstable are formations, so unreliable are formations.”