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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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Interview with Bhikkhu Cintita: “Sitagu Sayadaw, the coup and Burmese Buddhism”
Please click on the image to hear the interview.
Talks on the Buddhist life and the Buddhist path
Continuing to offer an overview of my weekly podcasts for the last two years, I offer the two series that supplement my book Buddhist Life/Buddhist…
Audio: What did the Buddha think of women?
I have been quietly reposting my podcast to this site since the beginning of COVID on THIS PAGE. I thought I would start highlighting some…
New Book: Dependent Coarising, meaning construction in the twelve links
Finally I am able to announce the publication of the book that has been in the works for several years. I thank many for the…
The Buddha’s method
I have to admit that on first encounter the early Buddhist texts struck me as abstruse and disconnected, and that – given their antiquity and…
Dependent Co-arising Project
For the last several years, I have been working on a project to better understand and clearly present perhaps the Buddha’s most profound and comprehensive…
New On-line Classes
Saturday afternoons, July 11 – August 29, 2020 led by Bhikkhu Cintita “Kind words: adventures in being nice” (for kids, 7 – 12 years old),…
New podcast: What did the Buddha think of women? – part two
Last week’s talk demonstrated the exemplary support the Buddha provided to women’s practice. This week we will look at a controversial text, describing with the…
New podcast: What did the Buddha think of women? – part one
Buddhism is not widely known as a religion of gender-equality. But the early the discourses show repeatedly that the Buddha had the deepest kindness and…
New podcast: understanding the aggregates
Understanding the aggregates. The aggregates are a foundational teaching of the Buddha, but they are rarely properly understood. This talk shows how to identify all…
New podcast episode: The story of my ordination
Source: The story of my ordination
New podcast episode: The thunder of intrinsic motivation
Source: The thunder of intrinsic motivation
New podcast episode: The blunder of extrinsic motivation
Source: The blunder of extrinsic motivation The second ‘trinsic motivation sermon.
Podcast episode: The wonder of intrinsic motivation
Source: The wonder of intrinsic motivation The first ‘Trinsic motivation sermon.
The Wonder of Intrinsic Motivation
During my days in graduate school, where I studied theoretical linguistics (of all things), I happened to have a conversation with a young man outside…