I'm sure I've told this story before, but in sixth-form biology (some 35 years ago now) we studied a plant and an animal in some ...

If the Kaccānagotta Sutta (SN 12.15) represents the epitome of early Buddhist metaphysics, then what would its counterpart be in terms o...

The city of Cambridge is old. The University of Cambridge was founded in 1208, but the town dates from centuries earlier. We have the rem...

T HE IDIOMATIC PROVERB in my title today is one of the strangest in the language I think. It refers to someone who wants everything. The b...

T HIS IS MY PARAPHRASE of the Cūḷamālunkya Sutta (M 63) in contemporary idiom and context. Once there was a man who had been brought up a ...

A couple of years ago senior member of the Triratna Buddhist Order, Subhuti, studied the Cetokhila Sutta [1] and was talking about it with ...