Words of the Buddha
Read the suttas of the Pāli canon in parallel Pāli and English — from memorable verses to the long discourses.
Reflection of the Day
“I do not see any other form that so completely obsesses a man’s mind as the form of a woman.”
— AN 1.1·
Fire: Investigating Recurrent Experience
The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.
Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.
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Seeing junior bhikkhus sleeping until sunrise, the Buddha urges them to train in sense restraint, moderation in eating, and wakefulness.
A well-known bhikkhu who encourages inappropriate bodily action, verbal action, and mental qualities practices for the detriment and unhappiness of many people, whereas one who encourages appropriate bodily action, verbal action, and mental qualities practices for the welfare and happiness of gods and humans.
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