Buddhism

Patient Endurance

Dr Alan Sidi explores how to transform the chaotic forces of the passions into the Buddha nature.

Skilful Restraint

The Wheel of life gives us a powerful tool for understanding the source of attachment and rebirth. By skilfully pairing this knowledge with the power of restraint we can begin to enter into Nirvana.

Giving: an antidote to half-heartedness

The Paramitas
Do we spend our lives in a never-ending, unsatisfactory cycle of picking and choosing? Or can we give ourselves wholeheartedly into the Dharma, which brings with it an end to suffering? Dr Alan Sidi investigates.

The Paramitas

The six Paramitas not only lead us out of suffering, they also bring us to enlightenment. 

Verses from the Dhammapada 335

If desire and craving are so are so fundamental to our existence, how can we begin to detach ourselves from them without loosing joy for life?

Verses from the Dhammapada 6

Zen training offers the opportunity to become familiar with death from moment to moment, eventually bringing peace to the mind.

Verses from the Dhammapada 184

Patience means throwing out all expectations, whether positive or negative. When we wholeheartedly give ourselves away, the boundless energy of choiceless awareness tirelessly sees and responds to all. Compassion flows.

Verses from the Dhammapada 96

The Search for Peace
In freeing the lion from its thorn, Androcles frees himself—fear becomes friendship.

The Heart that Doesn’t Settle Anywhere

A Celebration of the Buddha’s Birthday
In the more northern climes of the Buddhist world, spring is a natural time of year to celebrate a birth/re-birth as the world comes alive after the dark, cold winter months.

Verses from the Dhammapada 160

Who is the Master of Self?
The Buddha taught that the 'self' is a delusion. Who then is the Master of Self?

Verses from the Dhammapada 177

In order for intuition to function freely in all situations we must be prepared to give away something very precious to us.

Verses from the Dhammapada 114

Why are we so easily carried away by the tides of the heart-mind and what awaits us on the other side?
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