This is a gradual practice. The profound can only be experienced in all its profundity by one who has mastered the mundane. It is not just a matter of what you know, but whether you live your life in such a way that you have the maturity to digest the deep truths of Dhamma.

Another almost eight billion are in the waiting room. Death is inevitable. It’s coming for me and it’s coming for you. It’s coming for everyone we know without exception: those we love and like, those we hate or dislike, and to all those to whom we are indifferent.

It is defined as the neural process of encoding and processing stimuli—thermal, mechanical, or chemical—that damage or threaten to damage normal tissues. Nociception is what allows us to perceive and avoid potentially tissue-damaging events.

The Rabten Chodarling Center, with the blessings of Venerable Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche, is organizing a humanitarian fundraiser for Myanmar. The collected aid will then be distributed directly to the affected area with the help of our friends, the Myanmar monks.

The Thai word "nisai" means both character and habit, highlighting the truth that character is shaped by our habits. It is not fixed, but changes according to how we live our lives. When people see character as permanent, they often define themselves by their habits.

...Our mind will remain intact and we will speak no evil words, we will be compassionate for their welfare, with a mind full of loving kindness, without inner hatred. We will remain in a state permeated with kindness...

Ajahn Ñāṇadassano (Nyanadassano) is of Czech origin, grew up with a Russian father in Latvia. In the fall of 1999, he came to Amaravati (in Great Britain) with the intention of becoming a monk. Sign up in the article for meditations with Ajahn Ñāṇadassano in Červeněvsi