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: A Dynamic Interplay Between Insight and Training.
In this way, the Buddha’s teaching avoids the extremes of eternalism and nihilism
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Dharma Read: The deepest truths are those that cannot be spoken, but only lived.
A path that leads to the unfolding of compassion, wisdom, and liberation.
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Dharma Read: You must just be as immovable as an incense burner before a Buddha-image.
‘The greatest determination is similar to the one of a beginner who has just started practising meditation.’
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Dharma Read: In the seen, only the seen.
In the heard, only the heard.
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Dharma Read: The Buddha’s insight into the nature of true friendship illuminates the communal fabric of early Buddhism.
‘Whatever Dharma and Vinaya I have pointed out and formulated for you, that will be your teacher when I am gone.’
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Dharma Read: The Drift Towards Teacher-Dependency.
Yet, over time, the teacher-student relationship became increasingly centralised. By the time of Vajrayāna Buddhism, the guru-disciple dynamic had assumed a sacred prominence.
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Dharma Read: The Bodhisattva’s compassion.
When we see through the illusion of self, we no longer act out of self-interest but from a place of genuine care .
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Dharma Read: Āsava is a Pali term often translated as ‘outflows’ or ‘taints,’ referring to deep mental habits.
In meditation, thoughts and emotions may arise, but it is āsavas that keep us grasping at them.
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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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