An Exert From the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta Commentary ( Suttanipāta-Aṭṭhakathā ) by Buddhaghosa. [1] A pdf version of this text is available h...

Last week I was exploring the notion of "the spiritual life" - aka brahmacarya . Today I'm going to write about a text that ma...

Green Eros by Dhīvan Thomas Jones published by Apus Press. 'Well, you live in hope,' she said, and a whole world suddenly broke ope...

This is a new translation, not simply a paraphrase of an earlier translation. I have attempted to use contemporary idiom and reasonably sens...

I want to start this post by giving my free rendition of a Pāli Sutta, and then follow with a little commentary. The Conch Blower Saṃyutta N...

At the end of 2006 I attended a series of lectures by Richard Gombrich and I promised to try to use my blog to pass on some of what he said....