@mindatrisk Reform in your area is certainly possible if you just don't give up ! As a motivation here is a real story of a similar reform in an Indian village brought about by a 75 year old social a…

I do also make friends very easily. People then write and call for me to go do something with them. Actually I'm a quite private personality and don't want to go partying all the time - I prefer a si…

I'd like to start thinking about what we can do to take Buddhist teachings to a wider audience. The motive is simple... As Buddhists our core aim and function is to relieve the suffering of others, …

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Does anyone have any advice for getting a practice started again?

There is a practice I find helpful--you visualize the people you already love, or feel close to and care about, and then feel yourself loving them; then you picture people you feel neutral about, and…

There is a practice I find helpful--you visualize the people you already love, or feel close to and care about, and then feel yourself loving them; then you picture people you feel neutral about, and…

Gnosticism, at least in a modern definition, is the belief that all knowledge in life is ultimately knowable. Everything from God to what our purpose in life is can be proven or revealed.

I always understood the word banter to mean light-hearted mutual ribbing (repartee), and it's strange for me to see how it's used here. Anyway, the thread I'm starting is serious enough, even though …

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps