I’ve known people who go to a single meditation retreat and when they return home they start sitting an hour in the morning and an
Sacca, or truthfulness, is the seventh of the ten paramis, or perfections. We usually think of truthfulness in relation to speech, and this is the basis for
Water falling, drop by drop, will fill even a large pot.Likewise, the wise (one), accumulating good, little by littleBecomes goodness itself. The Dhammapada (Maitreya 1995, 34)
When it comes to developing the fifth parami of viriya—the perfection of effort or energy—the instructions seem simple: the Buddha said to “abandon the unwholesome” and to “develop
“To study the way of enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is
I recently had a chance to visit the Wonder* art exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC, which comprises two floors filled with large-scale, site-specific
In last month’s column, we explored the first parami (Skt. paramita, or “perfection”) of dana (“generosity”), so we are now ready to explore the second, sila, which translates as “morality” or
“If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would the stain of selfishness
The American novelist E. L. Doctorow once wrote that writing is “like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but
Last month, we explored self-acceptance as the ground of making resolutions for the New Year. This month, I’d like to go deeper into self-acceptance by
The New Year is a natural time for reflection and the setting of resolutions. This is a valuable process, for it’s all too easy to
Today we began our Winter Retreat, the equivalent of the Rains Retreat, which dates back to the time of the Buddha. In our community, it
