One doesn't have to spend a long time talking to people to discover that most of them subscribe to some form of mind-body dualism. Not...

There's been quite a lot of talk of "meta-rationality" lately amongst the blogs I read. It is ironic that this emerging tr...

This word saṅkhāra is one of the most puzzling terms in our Buddhist lexicon. It is used a number of different ways, meaning quite different...

Assutavā Sutta (SN 12.61, PTS S ii.94-95) T HUS HAVE I HEARD . One time the Buddha was staying in Sāvatthi in the Jeta Grove, in the park of...

I N THIS POST I'M REVISITING an old favourite of mine. I mention one of the phrases in this sutta - cetanāhaṃ, bhikkhave, kammaṃ vadāmi...

mano pubbaṅgamā dhammā manoseṭṭhā manomayā manasa ce paduṭṭhena bhāsati vā karoti vā tato naṃ dukkham anveti cakkaṃ va vahato padam ma...