One day the Buddha stood before a community of 1250 monks. He held up a flower before them and smiled. Time ticked by, and the monks...

Energy Energy, sometimes translated as diligence, is the 3rd of the Buddha’s seven factors of enlightenment. In that context, it is said...

A Glimpse of Nirvana Our human capacity to use symbols and language is, from one perspective, a great miracle. It enabled us to band...

Taking Refuge The world can seem dangerous and uncertain. All of us need a sense of basic safety. All spiritual traditions provide for...

Things are probably not as bad as they seem. Evolutionary psychology tells us that our brains evolved with a particular kind of quirk. ...

The Buddha taught that the past is gone and the future is not yet here. The present moment is the only moment in which life can be...

I have a friend who loves mountain biking. She told me that when you are learning to mountain bike, you are taught to focus on where you...

At the end of his life, the Buddha told his attendant, Ananda, that he should take refuge in the island of self. Later, Buddhists would...

Sometimes when we are trying to live more mindfully we may find ourselves straining, approaching it as though it were a difficult and...

Normally, we think of knowledge as something valuable. This almost goes without saying, and since it goes without saying, it also passes...