“A wise man should purify himself by striving for spiritual progress during at least one of the three periods of life.” Wise and good people who have the ability to see clearly the relation of cause and effect should renounce and relinquish success in the attainment of wealth (bhoga sampatti) and should put forth effort …
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Mar 01
Beyond Belief – A.L. De Silva
The purpose of this book is threefold. Firstly it aims to critically examine Christianity and thereby highlight the logical, philosophical and ethical problems in Christian dogma. In doing this I hope to be able to provide Buddhists with facts which they can use when Christians attempt to evangelize them. This book should make such encounters …
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Feb 23
Things As They Are – Ven Ajaan Mahã Boowa Ñãõasampanno Thero
Today I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you some of my own ignorance and doubts, with the thought that we all come from the land of ignorance and doubt inasmuch as our parents and their ancestors before them were people with defilement (kilesa) that led them to ignorance as well. Even all of …
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Feb 22
පානදුරාවාදය හරහා සිංහල බෞද්ධ උරුමය රැකගැනීම
වසර 138 ට පෙර, එනම් 1873 අගෝස්තු 26 සහා 28 වන දෙදින තුළ පානදුරේ ගල්කන්දේ විහාරස්ථානය අසල දී “මොහොට්ටිවත්තේ ගුණානන්‍ද” හිමියන් සහා “දාවිත් ද සිල්වා” පාදිලි තුමන් අතර බුදුදමහ සහා ක්‍රිස්තියානි ආගම පිළීබඳව විවාදයක් පැවැත් වීය. මෙම විවාද ය “පානදුරා වාදය” නමින් ලෝක ප්‍රසිද්ධියට ද පත් වූවා ය. පසුව, මෙම විවාදය සම්බන්ධව සිදු වූ විශේෂ …
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Feb 18
Wisdom Develops Samadhi – Ven Ācariya Mahā Boowa Ñāṇasampanno Thero
SILA – is that which sets a limit to the “outgoing exuberance” in a person’s actions of body and speech and the responsibility for these actions and their results rests with the heart. Good people do not like to associate with someone whose “outgoing exuberance” is not restrained by sīla, and nobody trusts him. In …
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Feb 17
බෞද්ධ ආකල්ප නූතන සමාජයට උපයෝගී වන්නේ ඇයි?
බුදු දහම වනාහි නිශ්පුද්ගල පදාර්ථයක් නොවේ. නොපෙනෙන බලවේගයක් ද නොවේ. හුදෙක් එය මිනිසා කේන්ද්‍ර කරගත් මානව කේන්ද්‍රීය වූ ආගමකි. කුමන ආගමක වුවද බලාපොරොත්තුව වනුයේ සමාජයට, පුද්ගලයාට යහපතක් සිදු කිරීම පිණිසය. නොමඟ යන මිනිසා සුමඟට ගැනීමත් අවිද්‍යාවෙන් තොර සිහි මුලාවූවන් නොමැති යහපත් , සමාජ වටපිටාවක් ඇති කර ගැනීම පිණිසත්ය. බුදුදහම උපයෝගීතාවාදයක් හෝ සුබපාරමවාදයක්, ප්‍රායෝගික ප්‍රතිඵලවාදයක් හෝ …
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Feb 11
The Mind and Life Institute
What needs & desires find all humanity, happiness! Health! Peace. Freedom from suffer. How can we most effectively find the happiness, peace we seek & minimize our unhappiness and discomfort by creating & maintaining healthy mind.
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Feb 10
Came to learn Meditation
An Italian professor has read all about, and studied, Meditation for a long time. He travels to see a living Zen Master and completes his research, but not as he expected….. [flv]http://www.dhammikaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/The_Cup_is_Full.flv[/flv] .
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Feb 06
Aids to the Abhidhamma Philosophy
By Dr. C. B. Dharmasena – M.B.B.S. (London) No enthusiastic follower of the Buddha, nor earnest seeker after the truth, and no student of psychology or philosophy, be he a follower of the Buddha or not, can afford to do without a knowledge of the Abhidhamma philosophy, which has been handed down to us by …
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