As he approached the age of eighty, Shakyamuni grew increasingly weak in body. It is imaginable that he must have […]
Tag: Bhikkhu Bodhi
Turning the Wheel of Liberation
Originally published in The Realities of Poverty in Delaware 2003-2004 In the Old Covenant forming the Hebrew Scriptures, the signatories […]
Conscientious, Merciful
One whoabandons the destruction of life,abstains from the destruction of life,with rod and weapons laid aside,conscientious,merciful,he dwells compassionate to all […]
Perceptions and Notions
“…’Bhikkhus, as to the source through which perceptions and notionstinged by mental proliferation beset a man:if nothing is found there […]
Turning Out Otherwise
“Behold the world together with its devas, conceiving a self in what is non-self, Settled upon name-and-form, they conceive, ‘This […]