Author Archives
The Golden Buddha Centre project began in 1998. Its particular aim is to help the growing number of Buddhists who are looking to live a Buddhist way of life in retirement.
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How Can We Know If Something is True? Dhamma talk by Bhante Bodhidhamma
How Can We Know If Something is True? A Dhamma talk by Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Hidden Virtue
There is a Taoist saying ‘dim your light’. In Buddhism we talk about ‘hidden virtue’.
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Five Protections Against Sorrow (the Five Precepts Panca Sila)
If as Buddhists we have true awareness, then morality will be our natural behaviour. [Zen Master Bukko]
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And what, Monks, is Ageing? By Sylvia Swain
People who have a religion which provides for after-death welfare, such as in Tibetan Buddhism, are less troubled. But those without such beliefs, can trust to nature’s spiritual intentions for them, as they, like plants, struggle instinctively and unerringly towards the light… Long Read
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Daruma (Bodhidharma)
Once you awaken to your original body and mind, you’re no longer bound by attachments.
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Parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant
‘Dhamma is like this!… Dhamma is like that!’ Thus have I heard: Parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant.
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The Buddhist Path – Footprint of the Buddha
A look at how Buddhism is practised in Sri Lanka and India. Ronald Eyre meets [the late] Venerable Ananda Maitreya a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka.
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Dalai Lama talks about what is present
Everyday Buddhist: Dalai Lama Talks About What is Present [Short Buddhist film about 2 minutes]
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Loving kindness and equanimity, by Ajahn Sumedho
But metta is much deeper than just nice ideas and good thoughts, isn’t it? It is a way of receiving everything and allowing things to be what they are, both internally and externally…
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The Development of Loving-kindness
Just as the radiance of all the stars does not equal a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance, but the moon’s radiance surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant, even so, whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the mind-release of loving-kindness…
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