Four Noble Truths

The first truth: There is suffering

Everything is impermanent. What arises will cease. When Shakyamuni gained enlightenment (insight), he became a Buddha, which means he attained…

April 2, 2012

Discovering the four noble truths

I was brought up in Essex in an orphanage run by Church of England Christians. Many of them had given…

March 5, 2012

Waking up to the truth

A new monthly blog first Monday of the month by Vimalasara Aka Valerie Mason-John My Ego When I came to…

February 6, 2012

“Never Turn Away: The Buddhist Path Beyond Hope and Fear” by Rigdzin Shikpo

Tejananda, Buddhist practitioner, meditation teacher, and author of The Buddhist Path to Awakening, gives an overview of a new, fresh…

February 27, 2009

The truth of not suffering: The Buddha’s teachings on happiness

The Buddha’s teaching on suffering does not say that we have to accept all of our unhappy circumstances. For those…

July 24, 2008

The purity of no-self

Are we fundamentally sinful beings? Or fundamentally pure? Or somewhere in between those two extremes? Even within the body of…

March 24, 2008