Father Tutu has passed. He is one of my most favorite human beings in the world. He inspires in a thousand ways. He, along with the Dalai Lama, showed me how deep spirituality, the desire to change...

Right concentration (sammā-samādhi) refers to the four jhānas. The word jhāna literally means meditation, but when the Buddha uses that word, he is referring to a specific collection of four...

I'm so unenlightened ... my bad karma has its own bad karma. I'm so unenlightened ... I accepted Mara's friend request on Facebook. I'm so unenlightened ... I left the form empty at the DMV because...

It is common among Buddhists, even Buddhist teachers, to erroneously claim that the Buddha proclaimed, "Life is suffering."  That mistake is understandable, I catch myself doing it frequently too....

On the final evening of the Buddha's earthly existence, a few hours before his passing, the Buddha was lying down between two sāla trees, mindful and fully aware.  According to the story, the trees...