Granted I'm new to a lot of this: I've been meditating daily for about 5 months, and carrying it into my daily activities for only about the past two months (I.e. Being in the now with whatever task…

People come here with very little ideas of what Buddhism is, and are often regarding this website as some kind of authority in the subject.

By Seng-ts'an, Third Chinese Patriarch

You don't understand the Mahayana view on "self", you don't understand "Nagarjunas two truths of relative and ultimate" and you don't read my posts with clarity. They are beyond …

On the path, I practice Vipassana and metta meditations. In my practice I have experienced some things I would like to share, I write as these things are my experiences and no longer just my intellec…

An old man was sitting at the gate of a town and a man riding on a horse stopped to ask him, "What are the people of this town like?"

Some interesting things about this language that I've found out. Please share what you've found.

Yeah, unfortunately, the Samurai mentality and discipline no longer exists. It's an idealised passion of a bygone age. It certainly doesn't generally or widely exist anywhere outside of Japan.

I am enduring a very tough and annoying situation that is complex, that really does bother me and cause me to suffer.

Understand that right now. To be a person, to do things, to create karma, is to suffer. That's the first noble truth. Therefore, NO MATTER WHAT, you will suffer. It is all the same. Try to think like…