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Approximately 110 billion people have died on this planet
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.
Yesterday I learned a new word: nociception.
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.
AID FOR MYANMAR
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.
Nisai: How Habits Shape Our Character
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.
Ajahn Jayasāro: how to repay others evil without hatred and ill will
...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...
Artificial intelligence on samatha and vipassana meditation
In the next installment of the AI interview series, I asked about the difference between samatha and vipassana meditation. This is a topic that has been addressed in Theravada Buddhism for at least the last 100 years, since the well-known teacher Mahasi Sayadaw came up with the concept of so-called…
Buddhist monk of Iranian origin on Shanta Vana
Bhante was born in 1976 in Iran, where two years later the Islamic revolution took place and the regime of Shia fundamentalists was established in the country. Despite this, the bhante, according to his statement, never accepted the belief in a single Creator God.
Belligerent ruler
Venerable Ratthapála was one of the important disciples of the Buddha, who is, among other things, the main actor of the Ratthapála-sutta, the canonical text of Theravada Buddhism. The text (sutta) describes in particular Ratthapála’s visit to his parents in his hometown and ends with a…
A talk for Dhamma-friends in the Czech Republic by Ashin Ottama (comments on the current situation)
Míša Laušmanová from Buddha Mangala asked the venerable Ashin Ottama for a few words about the current “coronavirus” crisis. Below you will find his talk about veils, insight and the necessary bit of mud for lotuses, and finally about eventual liberation from the fear (not only) of death.