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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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New Essay Added
I’ve added a new essay to this site. Sex, Sin and Buddhism (see all) A supplement to Sex, Sin and Zen by Brad Warner Brad Warner…
From Thought to Destiny: Character
Uposatha Teaching: Last Quarter Moon, October 1, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” If one man conquer…
From Thought to Destiny: Habits in Context
Uposatha Teaching: FullMoon, September 23, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” “Sow an act and reap a…
From Thought to Destiny: Habits as Karma
Uposatha Teaching: New Moon, September 16, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” “Whatever a monk keeps pursuing…
From Thought to Destiny: To Purify the Mind
Uposatha Teaching: New Moon, September 8, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” Well-makers lead the water (wherever…
From Thought to Destiny: To Do Good
Uposatha Teaching: First Quarter Moon, September 2, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” Bad deeds, and deeds…
Does a Buddhist lose Ambition?
Terasi asks: Would you talk about Buddhism and motivation please? Ever since I learned Buddhism few months ago (I am a newbie!) I’ve become more…
From Thought to Destiny: To Avoid Evil
Uposatha Teaching: Full Moon, August 25, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” This mind of mine went…
From Thought to Destiny: Action (Karma)
Uposatha Teaching: First Quarter Moon, August 18, 2010. Index to Current Series “Thought – Act – Habit – Character – Destiny” To avoid evil, To…
Was Jesus a Buddhist Monk?
The neat separation many of us make in our minds between Eastern and Western religion and culture belies many common historical origins and interconnections. We…
From Thought to Destiny: Thought
Uposatha Teaching: New Moon Day, August 10, 2010 All that we are is the result of thought, Thought is its master, it is produced by…
From Thought to Destiny: Introduction
Quarter Moon Teaching “Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap…
The Goal of Buddhist Practice
Quarter Moon Teaching This particular Uposatha Day is also the Day of the Full Moon. This particular Day of the Full Moon is also Dhamma…
Beyond the Noble Eightfold Path
Quarter Moon Teaching The Suttas recount the following conversation: As he was sitting there, Ven. Ananda said to the Blessed One, “This is half of…
Some Temporary ordinations.
In Burma and in Thailand it is very common for a man, especially a young man, to ordain as a monk temporarily, often for just…