Buddhism

“Abandoning hope is an affirmation, the beginning of the beginning,” Chödrön says. You realize that you never really needed the feeling of complete security you’d previously felt so desperate to attain. This is a liberation. Once you no longer need to convince yourself that the world isn’t filled with uncertainty and tragedy, you’re free to focus

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For the purpose of transmitting the Buddhist teachings to the English-speaking world, we felt it necessary to translate the entire Taishō Buddhist Canon. Realizing the extreme difficulty of translating the voluminous Taishō Buddhist Canon in a short period of time, the Editorial Committee selected for 139 works the first stage of its project, which... See more

According to the story found in Shubhakarasimha's ritual manual, Maheshvara's wife Uma (Parvati) gave birth to three thousand children: from her left side was born 1,500 evil deities headed by King Vinayaka (毘那夜迦王), while from her right side came 1,500 benevolent deities led by King Senayaka (扇那夜迦王; Pali: Senāyaka;[77] Sanskrit: Senanāyaka,[78][79]... See more

The peace of mind on offer here is of a higher order: it lies in the recognition that being unable to escape from the problems of finitude is not, in itself, a problem. The human disease is often painful, but as the Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck puts it, it’s only unbearable for as long as you’re under the impression that there might be a cure.

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Adding one extra feature nearly cost us our startup.

Monday morning, anxiety twisted in my chest as I deleted half of our codebase.

Our product was buried under features, each an attempt to stave off failure, yet leaving us on the brink of collapse. The team lingered, eyes glued to my screen.

“It’s too cluttered,” I finally said, swallowing my fear.

My

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Do you suffer what a French paleontologist called “the distress that makes human wills founder daily under the crushing number of living things and stars”? For the world is as glorious as ever, and exalting, but for credibility’s sake let’s start with the bad news.

An infant is a pucker of the earth’s thin skin; so are we. We arise like budding

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Joseph Goldstein's Dharma Talks

Humanity's repository of the Buddhist wisdom: the full text of 85 volumes of Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (大正新脩大藏經), is now available on-line.

Buddhist scholar Geshe Shawopa, who gruffly commanded his students, “Do not rule over imaginary kingdoms of endlessly proliferating possibilities.” Jesus says much the same thing in the Sermon on the Mount (though many of his later followers would interpret the Christian idea of eternal life as a reason to fixate on the future, not to ignore it).

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