Friends: What are the Causes of Lack of Vision & Wisdom? A prince named fearless once asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir, what is the conditioning cause...
Friends: Careless Attention Enhances the Mental Hindrances! The Blessed Buddha once said: When one attends carelessly & irrationally any absent sense-desire...
Friends: Careful & Rational Attention Reduces the Mental Hindrances: The Blessed Buddha once said: When one attends carefully & rationally, unarisen...
Friends: The Dhamma Makes the Mental Hindrances Vanish: The Blessed Buddha once said: When, Bhikkhus, a Noble Disciple listens carefully to the Dhamma, alert...
Friends: The Mental Hindrances Blur, Block & Weaken Knowledge: The Blessed Buddha once said: There are five obstructing obstacles and hindrances of the mind,...
Friends: The Mental Hindrances lead only to Neglect & Ruin: The Blessed Buddha once said: One whose mind is dominated by uncontrolled greed, lust, desire, envy...
Friends: The five Impurities block the Lucidity of Mind: The Blessed Buddha once said: There are five impurities of gold impaired by which it becomes neither...
Friends: The Urge for Sensing Pleasure is an Obsessive Addiction! Sense-Desire is the first, deepest and most common mental hindrance (Nivarana). The texts...
Friends: How to be a Real True Buddhist through Observance? Poya is the full-moon of Poson (June), which is specially noteworthy to the Sri Lankan Buddhists as...
Friends: How to Cure Anger, Aversion, Irritation, Opposition and Stubbornness! Evil and ill-will is the mental hindrance which is resisting against & opposing...
Friends: These 6 Things Uniting in Harmony are to be Remembered : The Blessed Buddha once said: These six things are to be remembered in order to Unite any...
Friends: How to cure the dull, slow, sluggish & heavy Lethargy & Laziness! In these days, Lethargy-&-Laziness may commonly be induced by self-destructive...
Friends: How to cure the agitated & worried Restlessness-&-Regret! Noticing Restlessness-&-Regret (uddhacca-kukkucca) arise can make it fade away: Herein,...
Friends: Tender Harmlessness & Patient Tolerance Protects all Beings! The Blessed Buddha was a great friend of tolerance & harmlessness: I am a friend of the...
Friends: New Buddhist Slide Show and Image Gallery: Buddha images: 366 pictures. Dhamma images: 442 pictures. Sangha people: 329 pictures. Sacred sites: 182...
Friends: How to cure the hesitant & vacillating Doubt-&-Uncertainty! Noticing Doubt-&-Uncertainty (vicikiccha) emerges can make this suspense fade away: ...
(Background: JR's Santa Lucia) Living Gracefully High Tech With a Heart Most Recent Publications (essays, poems, songs, etc. in the past few months) 1. Connie...
If a "fast-talking New Yorker" sells the Brooklyn Bridge to a newly arriving immigrant, the victim’s gullibility is not my problem, but in the case of 9-11,...
Friends: Emancipating is Following the Accomplished Ones! The Blessed Buddha once said: Friends, those Bhikkhus who are accomplished in morality, masters in...
Friends: Exceptionally Rare is the arising of the Links to Awakening! The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, these exquisitely refined & sophisticated Seven...
Special Alert June 22, 2006/Jess Ragaza (Background music: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'- If it does not start right away, please click to open another widow...
Friends: The Doctrine of the Seven Links to Awakening is Unmatched! Venerable Sariputta once told the Buddha: Unsurpassable is how the Blessed Buddha has...
Friends: Freeing from Sense-Addiction are the Links to Awakening! The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, I do not see even one other single thing that, when...
Relax, A Volatile Stock Market Is Your Dearest Friend Most people never forget their first love. I'll never forget my first trading profit! But the $600...
Friends: The Seven Fruits of Developing the Seven Links to Awakening! The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, when the Seven Links to Awakening have been...
Friends: How the 7 Links to Awakening induce Perforating Penetration? The Blessed Buddha once said: And what, bhikkhus, is the way that induce penetration? It...
Friends: How do the 7 Links to Awakening lead to Enlightenment? Then a certain not very well known Bhikkhu approached the Blessed Buddha and asked: Venerable...
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