Wisdom in Buddhism
28/12/2021 15:24 (GMT+7)
Prajñā or paññā in Buddhism is wisdom, understanding, discernment, insight, or cognitive acuity. It is one of three divisions of the Noble Eightfold Path. Such wisdom is understood to exist in the universal flux of being and can be intuitively experienced through meditation. In some sects of Buddhism, it is especially the wisdom that is based on the direct realization of such things as the four noble truths, impermanence, interdependent origination, non-self and emptiness. Prajñā is the wisdom that is able to extinguish afflictions and bring about enlightenmen

Practicing the Bodhisattva Path with Buddhism and Psychology: An interview with Ven. Zhankong
27/09/2018 16:38 (GMT+7)
Venerable Zhankong (湛空) is well-trained in Buddhist texts and cultivation, and, moreover, through her work and academic studies in China, she understands well the physical and mental suffering of ordinary people. She was tonsured in 2002, when she completed her BA in medicine. Having spent three years in relative isolation on the Zhongnan Mountains, she decided to put the bodhisattva ideal into practice through charity and social work. Ven. Zhankong is now a lecturer at the Buddhist Academy of Guangdong, while pursuing her PhD in Managerial Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the 2013 National Buddhist Sutra Interpretation Contest, Ven. Zhankong referred to examples in the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (六祖壇經) to illuminate how the principle of non-duality in Chan Buddhism can resolve mental issues in our modern times. In this interview, she shares some of her stories and work practices.
Buddhist Psychology for the Modern World: An Interview with Lene Handberg
14/03/2018 17:57 (GMT+7)
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills, just outside the town of Dehra Dun, India, lies the Tarab Ling retreat center. Residents of the center rarely venture outside after dusk. A leopard has been spotted roaming around and has recently taken prey, a small dog, leaving its mother inconsolable and the other dogs nervous.

Salvation Centre Cambodia — Fighting HIV/AIDS with the Buddha’s Army
21/03/2017 11:37 (GMT+7)
Staring blankly into space, Pat Sorm sits on the steps of her house, hugging a photo of her son who died just a week earlier. Khon Kha was working in the military and had just turned 40. He had battled with AIDS for the last 10 years of his life. A funeral ceremony was performed in a simple, yet dignified manner, with support from a donation of US$30 that Pat Sorm received from the Salvation Centre Cambodia (SCC). Cremation alone had cost some US$50, but she was at least comforted that the proper Buddhist rituals would allow her son to move on in peace.
How to communicate like a Buddhist — mindfully and without judgment
10/09/2015 11:20 (GMT+7)
San Francisco, CA (USA) -- There’s a lot that used to frustrate me about communicating. Well, if I’m honest, it was that I didn’t know how to do it. I knew how to speak and string words together, but no one ever sat me down and taught me the purpose of communication or how to effectively express myself so I was heard and how to listen so I could understand. A lot of times it seemed that because I knew how to talk, that automatically meant I should know how to communicate.

Muktinath: An Exemplar of Religious Symbiosis
18/02/2015 19:01 (GMT+7)
“ . . . I accept all religions that were in the past, and worship with them all; I worship God with every one of them, in whatever form they worship Him. . . .” – Swami Vivekananda (Green Message)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book Emotions: Fears
19/11/2013 18:03 (GMT+7)
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to put an end to worry. Rather than staying worried, recite Mani mantras to purify past negative karma, then there’s no need to worry. Everything dies—everything grows and dies, comes and goes—so our main aim should be enlightenment. All other things are not important.

What is Sexual Misconduct?
25/10/2013 08:43 (GMT+7)
What is “sexual misconduct” (kamesu micchacara)? Here are two definitions in the Buddha’s own words.
Marriage – a Dhamma point of view
20/10/2013 12:56 (GMT+7)
Marriage forms an integral part of our lives. Thus, before we enter this union, we need to analyse carefully the reason why we marry. If we cannot find a good reason, it means that we are probably not ready to marry. Love alone is not reliable, because it is likely we may change our minds later. There should be something greater, something that makes a marriage worthwhile, a binding of two lives.

Sickness & Old Age
23/07/2013 16:26 (GMT+7)
Since we are subject to birth, old age, sickness, death, and we suffer from dissatisfaction and unhappiness, we are sick people. The Buddha is compared to an experienced and skilful physician, and the Dhamma is compared with the proper medicine; but however efficient the physician may be, and however wonderful the medicine may be, we cannot be cured unless and until we ourselves actually take the medicine. It would seem that many of us are in need of some medicine to cure us of our misunderstanding of one another, our impatience, irritability, lack of sympathy and metta.
Compassion as Training
17/07/2013 08:53 (GMT+7)
In Buddhism, the ideal of practice is to selflessly act to alleviate suffering wherever it appears. You may argue it is impossible to elminate suffering, and maybe it is, yet we’re to respond anyway.

Loving-Kindness & Compassion
17/07/2013 08:48 (GMT+7)
Metta, loving-kindness, is to be started within ourselves. If we can say that we love ourselves, can we harm ourselves by having angry thoughts within ourselves? If we love a person, will we do harm to him? to love the self means to be free from selfishness, hatred, anger, etc.; and unless we ourselves possess metta within, we cannot share or radiate, we cannot send this metta to others.
When Psychotherapy meets Buddhism
16/07/2013 19:15 (GMT+7)
Psychologist and management guru Dr. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is probably American Buddhism’s finest journalist, and was nominated twice for the Pilitzer Price. His book Emotional Intelligence in 1995 introduced millions of people the very Buddhist concept that self-awareness and empathy or EQ are essential to success in life. In his latest book, Destructive Emotions:

There are two people who are not easy to repay
23/06/2013 10:31 (GMT+7)
I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two?Your mother & father.
Who is an Outcast ?
23/06/2013 10:21 (GMT+7)

The Ten Characteristics of a Devotee
15/05/2013 11:15 (GMT+7)
Life and Living
06/05/2013 16:10 (GMT+7)
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

The Roots of Buddhist Romanticism
25/03/2013 22:26 (GMT+7)
Many Westerners, when new to Buddhism, are struck by the uncanny familiarity of what seem to be its central concepts: interconnectedness, wholeness, ego-transcendence. But what they may not realize is that the concepts sound familiar because they are familiar. To a large extent, they come not from the Buddha’s teachings but from the Dharma gate of Western psychology, through which the Buddha’s words have been filtered. They draw less from the root sources of the Dharma than from their own hidden roots in Western culture: the thought of the German Romantics.
Is Universal Metta Possible?
26/01/2013 10:03 (GMT+7)
Singapore -- Now that the year-end holidays have passed, so have the barrage of entreaties to nurture a sense of “good will to all mankind,” to extend our love and care to others beyond our usual circle of friends and family. Certainly, this is a message we are meant to take to heart not just in December but all year long. It is a central ideal of several religious and ethical systems.

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