A biography of Ajahn Chah on the Forest Sangha website:

Regarding Feelings, piti (rapture) and sukha (pleasure) are not well-defined. In the Jhanic studies I have read, these two factors are described as present in the 1st and 2nd Jhanas and difficult to…

Women's eggs are costlier than men's sperm. The survey found that a fertile woman could sell 32 egg cells over eight years for $224,000; however, for a man to earn the same amount, he would have to m…

Sorry, guys, but I need clarification here. If it's not the same consciousness that continues, what is it that gets reborn? Where does the Buddha explain that?(Did I miss something? :-/ )

There is a funny (well I think it is) almost scarily near to the truth, joke called the physicists bill of rights (see below)

I'd say if you do not 100% percent want a child on your own (it is not your wife's child, or your parents, its is just as well yours!), to care for the baby (person), even if something should happen …

I have been meditating a lot more frequently in the last couple of months and it has helped to reveal some of the deeper causes of emotional stress and the arising of negative feelings, attitude, and…

"Research shows that 50% of all (including the first 2 weeks when people don't know they are pregnant and never know they were) pregnancies end in miscarriage. That number drops to around 10-25%…

isn't there a chain of actions that if you break the bottom chain then the rest subsequently break and you no longer strive for anything. I have forgotten exactly what these chains are, is it the 12 …

My brother can be a VERY difficult person, at times. My girlfriend and I recently moved in with him and so I've had a lot more contact with him in the last 6-8 weeks. He is a very lonely and confus…