We all need love. Without enough love, we may not be able to survive, as individuals and as a planet. It is said that the next Buddha will be named
The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha - Inquiring Mind
Thich Nhat Hanh's closing remarks to those attending his Day of Mindfulness at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in October, 1993.
AudioDharma - Love
Audio Dharma is an archive of Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdal and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom.
The InterBrain - How Collective DreamWeaving Can Heal the World
Buddha and Mind
In Pānadurē in the British colony of Ceylon in 1871, a Buddhist monk and a Christian missionary debated each other in front of five thousand people over which religion was the more scientific.
Origins of the Mind Only School and Its Relationship with the Madhyamaka View of Emptiness | Karmapa – The Official Website of the 17th Karmapa
A Teaching on Vasubandhu’s The Thirty Verses: Day 2 24 January 2022
13 books by Sadhguru that should be in your reading list – Himalayan Lust to Eternal Echoes
From self-realization to food, yoga to poetry, and relationships, Sadhguru offers something for every kind of book reader.
Uposatha
An Uposatha (Pali: uposatha; Sanskrit: Upavasatha) day is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence since the Buddha's time (600 BCE), and still being kept today by Buddhist practitioners.[1][2] The Buddha taught that the Uposatha day is for "the cleansing of the defiled mind," resulting in inner calm and joy.[3] On this day, both lay and ordained members of the sangha intensify their practice, deepen their knowledge and express communal commitment through millennia-old acts of lay-monastic reciprocity. On these days, the lay followers make a conscious effort to keep the Five Precepts or (as the tradition suggests) the ten precepts. It is a day for practicing the Buddha's teachings and meditation.
The Welcoming Prayer, a prayerful way of welcoming our emotions. — Spirituality for Questioning Minds
The welcoming prayer is a method that can be used in conjunction with centering prayer at times when we are being overwhelmed by an emotion during our prayer and can’t get centered or at any time in our daily lives when we are troubled by our feelings. When we find that it is difficult if not imposs
The New Resonance Of Ram Dass
We took a pilgrimage to Hawaii to visit the 87-year-old spiritual teacher who transformed hippie America with ‘Be Here Now’—and whose message is now more potent than ever.
Reflections on Buddhist Right Speech - Tasshin
Reflecting on Right Speech is a necessary component of the Buddhist spiritual path.
Taking Love Seriously: What Ancient Wisdom & Modern Psychology Say About Interconnectedness - The Great Simplification
In this episode, Nate welcomes Dr. John Churchill, a psychologist and former Buddhist monk, to explore a map of human development that runs from "first-person" perspective of the isolated self all the way to a felt, embodied sense of interdependence with the planet itself.
A New Pilgrimage: John Vervaeke on Finding Practices that Build Meaning | Over the Mountains #15
Mindfulness is loaded with (troubling) metaphysical assumptions | Aeon Essays
Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with (troubling) assumptions about the self and the cosmos
Extraordinary Passion: Couple Meditation
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss is a 2013 book by philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart published by Yale University Press. The book lays out a statement and defense of classical theism and attempts to provide an explanation of how the word "God" functions in the theistic faiths, drawing particularly from Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.
