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Reflections for “Abbot’s Commentary: Practice Makes Right”
The post titled Abbot’s Commentary: Practice Makes Right is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: Right, or Sammā is correct, complete, whole, proper, perfect. Right view...
Reflections for “Right Mindfulness and Right Samadhi”
The post titled Right Mindfulness and Right Samadhi is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: Our mind is so habitually turned outwards towards external stimuli that most of...
Reflections for “Right Effort”
The post titled Right Effort is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: Right effort is more of a mental practice or introspective awareness, rather than a physical effort. To...
Reflections for “Right Livelihood”
The post titled Right Livelihood is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: The Buddha's compassion to teach us right livelihood (relevant even today) is immeasurable. Examine...
Reflections for “Right Action”
The post titled Right Action is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: When we practice right action, we do not want to cause harm to others, because they too are precious...
Reflections for “Right Speech”
The post titled Right Speech is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: Hurtful speech can harm significantly more than physical weapons. Unwholesome speech could potentially...
Reflections for “Right Intention”
The post titled Right Intention is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: From our intentions, words and deeds are born. If we can check our intentions and steer them towards...
Reflections for “Right View”
The post titled Right View is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: Reflecting on right view, I'd like to share a metaphor. Suppose a person has jaundice since birth. He...
Reflections for “The Noble Eightfold Path”
The post titled The Noble Eightfold Path is now up on Buddhism for All. Angela from the Buddhism.net team reflected on it, and invites you to do so too. 🌕 Angela's Reflections: Now we come into the Fourth Noble Truth, that is the Noble Eightfold Path. The Fourth Noble...
Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path with deliberate speed
Dear friends, Thank you to all of you who have journeyed with us since we launched the Buddhism For All web series. When we started, we released one post a day. We heard your feedback that it is hard to keep up, given the depth of content we are sharing -- yes we...
Thanksgiving Series: Everywhere they go in safety … is the highest blessing…
So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. That deity...
Thanksgiving Series: Sorrowless, stainless, secure … is the highest blessing…
So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. That deity...
Thanksgiving Series: Fervor and celibacy … is the highest blessing…
So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. That deity...
Thanksgiving Series: Patience … is the highest blessing…
So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. That deity...
Thanksgiving Series: Respect and humility … is the highest blessing…
So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. That deity...
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