The Heart Of Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation

To enter the heart of the Buddha means to be present for ourselves, our suffering, our joys, and for many others. To

When we look deeply into nonself, we see that the existence of every single thing is possible only because of the existence of everything else.

Practice the First Noble Truth, identifying your suffering; the Second Noble Truth, seeing its sources; and the Third and Fourth Noble Truths, finding ways to transform your suffering and realize peace. The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are not theories. They are ways of action.

The teaching of impermanence helps us appreciate fully what is there, without attachment or forgetfulness.

Through the practice of mindful living, we learn new habits. Walking, we know that we are walking. Standing, we know that we are standing. Sitting, we know that we are sitting. Practicing this way, we slowly undo our old habits and develop the new habit of dwelling deeply and happily in the present moment. With mindfulness in us, we can smile a smi

Look deeply to try to overcome the gap between your concept of reality and reality itself. Meditation helps us remove concepts.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Don’t think that happiness will be possible only when conditions around you become perfect. Happiness lies in your own heart. You only need to practice mindful breathing for a few seconds and you’ll be happy right away.

“Dear one, do you see the cow on the hillside? She is eating grass in order to make my yogurt, and I am now eating the yogurt to make a Dharma talk.” Somehow, the cow will offer today’s Dharma talk. As I drank the cow’s milk, I was a child of the cow. The Buddha recommends we live our daily life in this way, seeing everything in the light of interb

When we look deeply into impermanence, we see that things change because causes and conditions change.