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Here is the YouTube channel of the Bhavana Society, the Therevadan forest monastery founded and led by the 88-year-old Bhante Gunaratana, author of "Mindfulness in Plain English" and many o… (View Post)
Goodness, I am sorry for introducing politics into the stream. I foresee a need for a whole lot of mindfulness and Right Speech in the months ahead. Thich Naht Hahn sets the bar high: "Aware of … (View Post)
I recall a quote from a Tricycle issue many years back about drugs and Buddhism that described the state achieved while on drugs as equivalent to "samsara within samsara." Samsara is alread… (View Post)
Two from Bhante G (from 'Mindfulness in Plain English): "You've failed to be mindful. Simply become mindful of that sense of failure. You've reestablished mindfulness with that single step"… (View Post)
Or, as the Buddha put it succinctly: All actions are led by the mind. Mind is their master, mind is their maker. Act or speak with an impure state of mind and suffering follows as the cartwheel follo… (View Post)