Retaining right mindfulness for exclusive Amitabha-recitation

What technology developers and system engineers can learn from mindfulness

A Noble Eightfold Path for the press and the media

Reaching understanding on the path to wisdom

Enabling sustainable entrepreneurship, promoting ethical values

Learning from hardship

How mindfulness enhances memory and sharpens spiritual practice

Inheriting the root of virtue from past lifetimes

The origins and meanings of the Eight Auspicious Symbols

Understanding the Fourth Noble Truth: the path that leads to the cessation of dukkha

Rebirth is assured by practicing with “right mindfulness”   When interpreting the Third Contemplation in his Commentary on the Contemplation Sutra, Master Shandao wrote: “If

As I approach the magnificently remodeled San Francisco Marriott in Union Square, I become keenly aware of the vast differences in karmic circumstances that exist in this world of “endurance.&rd

Faith is not genuine if the practice is not always active   Master Shandao (613–81) introduced an important concept about faith in Amitabha’s deliverance and the correlation with the practice of Ami

Twenty years ago, Tsering was a fully ordained monk in Tibet. Now, 40-year-old Tsering is a farmer and businessman in China. When his sister fell gravely ill, Tsering left Ganden monastery (belonging