Author Archives for Colin

Living With the Cobra

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

A Dhammatalk by Ajahn ChahThis short talk is for the benefit of a new disciple who will soon be returning to London. May it serve to help you understand the teaching that you have studied here at Wat Pah Pong. Most simply, this is the practice to be free of suffering in the cycle of birth and death. ...>

Preparing The Mind For Anapanasati By Raising Joy

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

By Ven Ajahn Brahmavamso10.12.959 Day Retreat WA Buddhist SocietyThis morning I want to talk some more about skilful means to assist the practice of meditation, in particular, that which one reads in the Buddha’s teachings, again and again, that the proximate cause of gaining SAMADHI, for gaining ...>

Joy in Spiritual Practice

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by Venerable Ajahn TiradhammoSource: www.forestsangha.orgThe following teaching has been adapted from a talk given by Venerable Tiradhammo on the seventh day of a ten day retreat in Switzerland, in May 1988. The 'Seven Factors of Enlightenment' referred to in the talk are mindfulness, investigation, ...>

The Meditative Development of Unselfish Joy

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by Ven. Buddhaghosa (fifth-century)Excerpted from The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)One who begins the development of unselfish joy should not start with dearly beloved person, a neutral person or hostile person. For it is not the mere fact that a person is dearly beloved, which makes him an i ...>

The Nature and Implications of Mudita

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by L.R. OatesFrom Metta, Vol. 12, No. 2Altruistic joy is one of the four "sublime states" of mind — friendliness, compassion, altruistic joy, and equanimity — which together form one related group among the various spiritual or physical exercises generally described as meditation or contemplatio ...>

Mudita

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by C.F. KnightFrom Metta, Vol. 12, No. 2A feature of the Buddha-Dhamma is cognizance of the pairs of opposites in the training to get beyond them. The Buddha's method of mental training and development was to teach by first defining unwholesome or unskillful thoughts, words, and deeds, or practices ...>

Is Unselfish Joy Practicable?

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by Nyanaponika TheraThe virtue of mudita [muditaa], 1 i.e., finding joy in the happiness and success of others, has not received sufficient attention either in expositions of Buddhist ethics, or in the meditative development of the four sublime states (brahma-vihara [brahma-vihaara]), of which mudit ...>

Mudita - The Buddha’s Teaching on Unselfish Joy

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

(Photo source: flickr.com)The awakened one, the Buddha, said:Here, O, Monks, a disciple lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of unselfish joy, and so the second, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around, everywhere and equally, ...>

Acceptance

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by Thubten Chodron Each day before breakfast, Sravasti Abbey founder and abbess Thubten Chodron gives a morning motivation for residents and guests. We welcome you into the Abbey community by sharing this brief Dharma discourse, transcribed from the collection of talks given October 2005 to May 2006 ...>

Wheel of Analysis and Meditation That Thoroughly Purifies Mental Activity

  • Posted by Colin
  • December 31, 1969

by Jamgön Mipham RinpocheNamo mañjushriye! Whatever problems there are in the worldAre created by the afflictions in our own minds.A mistaken attitude is a cause for the kleshas,Yet the pattern of our thoughts can be refined. Here there are three sections: (i) how to meditate, (ii) the measure of ...>

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