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He who, having traversed this miry, perilous,
and delusive round of existence,
who has crossed over, and reached the other shore,
who is meditative, calm, free from doubt,
and, clinging to nothing, has attained to nibbāna:
him do I call a holy one. (Dpd 414)
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Noble Eightfold Path: the Big Picture
Uposatha Day Teaching During each of the last eight Uposatha Days we have taken up a successive step on the Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha’s…
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Concentration
Uposatha Day Teaching The Eighth and final Fold of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration. Concentration in Pali or Sanskrit is samadhi, a familiar word…
New Essays
I just posted a new essay, or actually a collection of essays at this site. Please see: Up to the Land of the Chopstick and…
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Mindfulness
Uposatha Day Teaching for the Full Moon Right Mindfulness is perhaps the best known of the Eight Folds of the Noble Path. But few understand…
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Effort
An Uposatha Day teaching for the First Quarter Moon. We don’t like to think Buddhist practice takes effort. Buddhism abounds with metaphors that might suggest…
Uposatha Day Teaching
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Livelihood We are now at the fifth fold of the Noble Eightfold Path, the Buddha’s master checklist for mastering the skill…
Uposatha Day Teaching
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Action In the last episode we considered Right Speech, the first of the Ethical Conduct Group of the Noble Eightfold Path.…
Uposatha Day Teaching
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Speech To bring the new reader up to date, the Noble Eightfold Path is the Buddha’s master checklist on the path…
Uposatha Day Teaching
Noble Eightfold Path: Right Resolve For new readers: Each quarter moon, on Uposatha Day, I am posting a short Buddhist teaching. The present posting is…
Uposatha Day Teaching
Noble Eightfold Path, Right View In order to craft a ceramic object a potter needs to understand his materials and tools: the varieties of clay,…
Uposatha Day Teaching
Noble Eightfold Path, Introduction Recall that every Uposatha Day, traditionally a day for connecting with Buddhist practice, I am posting a short teaching, and that…
Uposatha Dhamma
Uposatha, a Pali word, is often translated as “Sabbath.” In Buddhist lands this traditionally follows the phases of the moon such that every time the…
Interview in the Austin American Statesman
Buddhist monk says U.S. can benefit from example of monastic communities www.statesman.com When I visited with Venerable Cintita recently, I was eager to hear about…
Announcing New Web Site
I would like to officially announce my New Web Site as a home for various essays, some of which are reworked from postings from Burma…
Still in Minnesota
I may be in Minnesota until June! Recall that in the last episode I left Austin 13 days after returning from Burma in order to…