Dear friends, Welcome to the Year of the Wood Dragon! February 10, 2024 is Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month of the year. This day is celebrated by Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and many other cultures. It is also celebrated by the team at...
The Buddha is the greatest genius in the history of the world. One of his most important innovations, which is surprisingly less than prominent on the radars of many Buddhist teachers and scholars, is the central role of joy. The path to enlightenment can...
The Noble Five-Factored Right Samadhi Right samadhi refers to the four jhānas. The word jhāna literally means “meditation”, but when the Buddha uses that word, he is referring to a specific collection of four increasingly refined states of meditative...
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Source: Wikipedia. In the 1600s, there was a Dutch draper by the name of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Antonie cared a lot about the quality of his textile. He wanted to see the quality of the thread better than anyone else could, so he...
Friends, Mindfulness is the main pillar of the meditative practice taught by the Buddha. It is also the first of the seven factors of enlightenment, the balancing factor of the five spiritual faculties, and so on. The Buddha declared that mindfulness is...
