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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Dharma Read: Dvaita and Ādvaita: The Limits of Translation.
‘Not-two’, by contrast, is gentler, more spacious.
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Dharma Read: The challenge for Western practitioners.
The Buddha’s teachings are not abstract doctrines but practical guides for awakening.
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Dharma Read: Everything is meditation itself.
Everything is meditation itself and can be regarded as an opportunity for change; this is the art of turning the negative into the positive.
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Dharma Read: The Practice of Dāna.
By giving freely, we loosen the bonds of greed and cultivate a sense of abundance.
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Dharma Read: Tathāgata.
The Buddha frequently used language to convey deeper truths beyond conventional expression.
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Dharma Read: The Buddha Within: Realising Our Innate Wisdom.
In the absence of self, the Buddha within is not diminished.
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Dharma Read: When you dream at night you see all sorts of different things.
It is all your personal experience.
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Dharma Read: The duality between self and no-self, self and other dissolves, not in the sense that the world vanishes.
In its place, there is the direct experience of interconnectedness, where everything is seen as part of a dynamic, interdependent whole.
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Dharma Read: It is important to note that clear awareness is not a rejection of the relative world in which we live.
From the perspective of clear awareness, we engage with life fully, but without attachment or aversion.
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Dharma Read: Dāna and Anattā: The Union of Giving and Not-Self.
Buddha made an important distinction between ordinary acts of giving and true dāna.
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