Spinoza famously stated that ‘desire is man’s very essence’ (Ethica, III, def. of affects, 1). Ordinarily, desire manifests in two...

The first time I was born out of fear and ignorance. Seeing this folly, following the path of the Silent Sage, I turned around, seeking...

Death is one of the most important topics for recollection, which has an immense potential in terms of fostering practice and developing...

(Author's cut from An Introduction to Friendliness, §1 Reflections) It is impossible to have experience without being somehow involved...

In the beginning, it was just a word document with a few notes, excerpts and comments. It should have been a bit more than an annotated...

As any pianist would know, there are two boundaries within which any interpretation has to move. On the one hand, one is confronted with...

The Pāli canon contains many thousands of discourses (they are even difficult to count exactly, 8000? 10000? more?), spanning from a few...

The Pāli discourses of the Buddha are roughly two-and-half millennia hold, and yet they still provide an incredibly precise guide to...