Stay mindful of your breath, to calm down and become more positive.

Conceptual thought has many varieties. Some are useful and some detrimental in meditation and daily life.

Life goes much more smoothly when we don't make a big deal out of the everyday ups and downs that occur.

Fine Points about Categories  There was an interesting question Ulla brought up this morning that I thought about. That is, how do we know a double negative? We were speaking in terms of specifiers (ldog-pa). How do we know that something is not anything other than...

We started our discussion of conceptual cognition last time and I asked you to think of a dog and examine: what is it that appears? Did you think of all dogs in general? Or did a mental picture of a specific dog come to your mind? Answer please. My dog. So, a specific...

It is important to reflect on the causes of suffering because disturbing emotions and the karma they generate bind us to the cycle of dissatisfaction, death and rebirth, whereas counteracting them through Dharma practice leads to liberation.

Different types of causes and conditions lead to different results.

Kalmykia faces a very special challenge because Buddhist culture was repressed for many years and now is experiencing the pressures of globalization.

Both the Madhyamaka and the Vaibhashika presentations of karma derive from The Extensive Great Commentarial Treatise on Special Topics of Knowledge (Chos mngon-pa bye-brag bshad-pa chen-mo, Skt. Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā), compiled at the Fourth Buddhist Council from the Mahayana...

The Need for an Equal Attitude toward Everyone In order to develop compassion it’s necessary to purify and train the mind and the heart. The definition of compassion is the attitude with which you wish everybody to be free from their problems and unhappiness. The attitude with...