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Theres a teaching from the Buddha about telling the truth that I find interesting and challenging. The setting is a story of the Buddha speaking to his son seven year old son Rahula. This is ri... Read more
Starting the Path of Practice
In the spirit of this still being a relatively new year, I thought that I would talk about what are perhaps the most essential teachings of the Buddha: the beginning teachings. I was wondering, where do you start?
So I researched the way the Buddha tau... Read more
Changing the Channel of the Mind
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How do we take the Buddhas teachings farther than just learning to calm down and self-regulate?
The Buddha points us toward something deeper in the Devitaka Sutta, where he describes two kinds... Read more
Identity and the Roots of Suffering
I think one of the most misunderstood topics in Buddhist practice is the topic of the self. You often hear things like, “there is no self.” But the Buddha actually went out of his way not to take a position on the existence of self.
There’s a sutta whe... Read more
Untangling the Mystery of Not-Self
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The word anatta gets translated in a lot of different ways. You will hear people say that there is no self, or self is an illusion. Sometimes it’s translated as “not self.” This is on its face very counterint... Read more
True Generosity: The Gift of Letting Go
The practice of generosity takes us out of the acquisitional paradigm of happiness that most of us get — particularly if you grew up in a Western culture — that your happiness and well-being will ripen when you get that degree, that job, that house, tha... Read more