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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Five benefits of listening to the Dhamma
The spiritual life is lived for the abandoning and complete uprooting of the seven fetters—attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, passion for existence, and ignorance—and one who has cut them off at the root has made an end of suffering.
While a first point of craving for existence is not discerned, it can be discerned that craving for existence has a supporting condition. Using the simile of mountain rain filling the ocean, the Buddha traces the nutriments for craving for existence alongside those for true knowledge and liberation.
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