Emotional Desire & Soul Desire
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The Offensive Message of the Dhamma
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Do Your Work With a Steadied Mind
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You Should Want to Be Free
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Mindfulness as Delight in All Experiences
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Insight Matures as Letting Go
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Turning Toward the End
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The discipline of home retreat
Some notes on the difficulties and benefits of home retreat as we develop this new form for intensive contemplative practice in the Covid era. Written as part of the welcome letter to our Summer 2020 home retreat: Living the Dhamma. Home retreat is similar and different from retreat at a center, of course. The schedule and practices are almost identical
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Observing the Uposatha (Sabbath)
The Pāli word uposatha means “observance,” and refers to the ancient Buddhist tradition of devoting a day to our practice, much like the Christian sabbath, which is a fine translation of the word. The Buddha strongly encouraged lay practitioners to keep the uposatha, as the texts at the bottom of this page indicate. Observing the uposatha day might be as
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“…incalculable, immeasurable”: The Blessings of Gift Economy
Once the Buddha was living at his most beloved monastery, a park given to the monastic community (saṅgha) by a passionate donor and community leader named Anāthapiṇḍika, outside the city of Sāvatthī. His two senior disciples, Sāriputta and Moggallāna, at that time were about 490 miles away, “wandering in the Southern Hills” with their own groups of students, and were
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