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A Journey into Buddhism
Pariyatti - March 17, 2024 21:32 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsA Journey into Buddhism by Elizabeth J. A. Harris . "The themes of the talks are rooted in my journey, as a Christian, into Buddhism. In the mid-1980s I felt the need to ’let go’ of my own religious conditioning to enter the world of another faith. It grew from a conviction that people with a...
Deconstructing Constructions: The Role of Saṅkhārā in the Buddha’s Discourses
Pariyatti - February 26, 2024 23:35 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsDeconstructing Constructions: The Role of Saṅkhārā in the Buddha’s Discourses by Bhikkhu Bodhi . In this paper I intend to explore the Pāli term saṅkhārā, one of the pivotal concepts in the Buddha’s discourses. The Pāli word has such a rich gamut of meanings that merely to draw them out into ...
Your Best Friend
Pariyatti - January 27, 2024 21:23 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsYour Best Friend: And Other Essays by M. B. Werapitiya. "To understand ourselves, we must live with ourselves and know all about ourselves. The mind for that matter is flickering, fickle, difficult to guard and control and flutters like a fish taken out of its watery abode and thrown upon the ...
Part 6 - Expanding Into New Frontiers by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - September 23, 2023 16:41 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPart 6 - Expanding Into New Frontiers from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi . Mindfulness has traveled a long way from its homeland in northeast India. It has journeyed to the island of Sri Lanka, the river basins of southeast Asia, the mountain monasteries of ...
Part 5 - Clear Comprehension by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - September 16, 2023 16:38 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPart 5 - Clear Comprehension from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi . While I said just before that clear comprehension plays a more prominent role in the contemplation of experiential phenomena, the refrain on right mindfulness shows that clear comprehension ...
Part 4 - What the Suttas Say by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - September 09, 2023 16:33 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPart 4 - What the Suttas Say from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi . Nevertheless, despite my reservations about the use of “bare attention” as an alternative expression for sati, if we consider how mindfulness is to be practiced in the system laid down in the Satipaṭṭhāna ...
Part 3 - Mindfulness and Bare Attention by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - September 02, 2023 16:29 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPart 3 - Mindfulness and Bare Attention from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi . Many commentators who teach and practice in the contemporary vipassana movement have sought to convey the experiential flavor of mindfulness by means of the expression “bare attention.” With cer...
Part 2 - The Meaning of <em>Sati</em> by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - August 26, 2023 16:25 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPart 2 - The Meaning of Sati from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi . A problem in hermeneutics, with intimate bearings on the actual practice of meditation, concerns the exact meaning of the word sati both in general and in relation to Buddhist contemplative activity. We ta...
Part 1 - Mindfulness in the Buddhist Path by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Pariyatti - August 16, 2023 22:01 ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsPart 1 - Mindfulness in the Buddhist Path from 'What Does Mindfulness Really Mean' by Bhikkhu Bodhi . The entry of systematic mindfulness practice into the fields of stress reduction and psychotherapy has dramatically altered modern medicine’s perspectives on our capacity to regulate and over...
Sangha at the Crossroads
Pariyatti - May 20, 2023 15:00 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsSangha at the Crossroads by Bhikkhu Bodhi "In this article I want to focus on one particular constituency of Buddhists in present day Sri Lanka, the Bhikkhu Sangha, the Order of Monks. I intend to examine, though briefly, the problems it faces and its prospects for the future. This task is esp...
The Changing Face of Buddhism
Pariyatti - May 13, 2023 15:00 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe Changing Face of Buddhism by Bhikkhu Bodhi "If Buddhism is failing to penetrate deep into the hearts of those who profess it as their faith, we have to ask ourselves why, and to ask what can be done to reverse present trends. I would like to approach these questions by first asking what ro...
A Buddhist Approach to Economic and Social Development
Pariyatti - May 06, 2023 15:00 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsA Buddhist Approach to Economic and Social Development by Bhikkhu Bodhi "The notion of economic and social development has today become the rallying call of politicians, business leaders, and policy planners clear across the globe. This notion thus exercises a tremendous influence on the lives...
A Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century
Pariyatti - April 29, 2023 15:00 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsA Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century by Bhikkhu Bodhi "In Theravada Buddhist circles during the past few decades a debate has repeatedly erupted over the question whether or not jhāna is necessary to attain the “paths and fruits,” that is, the four graded stages of enlightenment. The de...
The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas
Pariyatti - April 21, 2023 15:03 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas by Bhikkhu Bodhi . "In Theravada Buddhist circles during the past few decades a debate has repeatedly erupted over the question whether or not jhāna is necessary to attain the “paths and fruits,” that is, the four graded stages of en...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 98 excerpt)
Pariyatti - April 15, 2023 17:45 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 98 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . There is an old story about a young seeker who asks the abbot of a nearby monastery for guidance on how to become enlightened. The abbot declines his request but sends him to a shoemaker in a nearby village. The abbot...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 97 excerpt)
Pariyatti - April 12, 2023 17:42 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 97 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . How long will it take to be enlightened? This is such a firstworld question. We want the truth and we want it now, to paraphrase Jim Morrison. There is no answer to that question, because it is the wrong question. And...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 96 excerpt)
Pariyatti - April 08, 2023 17:33 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 96 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . My teacher in India eventually attracted so many students that he began to appoint assistants to lead retreats on their own. I began assisting him in 1996 and soon was made a senior assistant teacher. I led ten-day re...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 95 excerpt)
Pariyatti - April 05, 2023 17:32 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 95 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Doing non-doing is a long path and is not always straightforward. To understand what you need to do and why and how is relatively easy, and in this regard I hope this little book has been a help. However, old habit pa...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 94 excerpt)
Pariyatti - April 01, 2023 17:29 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 94 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . With the death of a loved one, a grieving period is important, as is understanding how the mind works and how doing nothing with clear comprehension does not eliminate the grief. Once again, grieving is a natural cond...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 93 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 29, 2023 17:27 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 93 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . According to Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I think when people read this, they focus on the word “quiet” as the problematic one in the sentence. Echoing Pascal, quiet isn't the problem, i...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 92 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 25, 2023 17:25 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 92 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . In the center of Igatpuri village is a street market. Vendors sit at stalls and sell their produce. Because every vendor sits in the same location, everyone knows what they sell. So all they need announce is the price...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 91 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 22, 2023 17:18 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 91 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . We needn't pause to figure out our next step in life. Life, real life, is there in the pause, in the quagmire of conflicting choices. We then choose one route and look for signs that this is the correct way to go. No ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 90 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 18, 2023 21:23 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 90 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Most everyone is possessed by their possessions. I know people who are owned by their pets. I know others who build heated garages for their prized automobiles. My aunt bequeathed me an old rocking chair to which she ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 89 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 15, 2023 21:21 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 89 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I remember a Sayadaw (respected teacher) who lived in a remote monastery in upper Burma in the vicinity of Sagaing Hills. He was elderly and blind and very much loved. I visited him, excited to both meet a living lege...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 88 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 11, 2023 22:20 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 88 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I volunteered with Mother Theresa at her Sisters of Charity palliative care hostel in Calcutta. My service was to help with the lunch meal as well as a certain undefined “nursing.” The hostel was smaller than I had ex...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 87 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 08, 2023 22:17 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 87 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Two more salient points about mettā. Mettā must be tempered by wisdom. There is a parable from India of a kind man who came upon a frog in the middle of a busy road. Concerned that the frog might be crushed under the ...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 86 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 04, 2023 22:15 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 86 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Mettā is a Pāli word meaning loving-kindness. As the mind deconditions, many positive mind states arise. The emergence of these so-called divine abodes had been held back by the continually self-reinforcing habitual p...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 85 excerpt)
Pariyatti - March 01, 2023 22:14 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 85 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . In Maharashtra a few decades ago, my elderly meditation teacher was delivering his evening discourse when a deranged sādhu rushed at him from the back of the hall. The sādhu screamed incoherently and thrashed his arms...
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 84 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 25, 2023 22:12 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 84 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . In her book, Educated, about growing up in a survivalist Mormon family where school was not an option and daily manual labor a necessity, Tara Westover relates how she found herself standing on a rooftop in England during a windstorm....
A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 83 excerpt)
Pariyatti - February 22, 2023 22:10 - application/x-download-file ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsStory 83 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Friendship. Where would we be without our friends? This is true for the homeless alcoholic who followed his friends’ lead, quit school, took to the road, lived high and free until he lost his health, his integrity, an...
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