The Mind Like Fire Unbound: An Image in the Early Buddhist Discourses
Western Buddhists have usually understood the Buddha’s metaphor of nibbana (Sanskrit, nirvana) as “extinguishing” or “extinction”. This...
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Nov 71 min read
The Buddha’s Teachings: An Introduction
A short introduction to the basic concepts and values underlying Buddhist practice, with special attention to clearing up common...
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Nov 71 min read
The Truth of Rebirth: And Why It Matters for Buddhist Practice
A short treatise explaining that the Buddha did not teach the doctrine of rebirth because he was blindly following the cultural norms of...
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Nov 71 min read
The Paradox of Becoming
Although “becoming” is one of the most important concepts in the Buddha’s teachings, there is no full-scale treatment of it in English....
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Nov 71 min read
The Shape of Suffering: A Study of Dependent Co-arising
An explanation of dependent co-arising through the analogy of feeding and pulling from the vocabulary of complex, non-linear systems. eBooks
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Nov 71 min read
Into the Stream: A Study Guide on the First Stage of Awakening
For your practice to lead to Awakening, you must develop reliable standards for judging — which practices lead to stream entry, what...
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Nov 71 min read
The Sublime Attitudes: A Study Guide on the Brahmavihāras
The sublime attitudes (brahmaviharas) are the Buddha’s primary heart teachings—the ones that connect most directly with our desire for...
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Nov 71 min read
Udāna: Exclamations
A complete translation of the book of the Udāna from the Khuddaka Nikāya collection of the Pāli Canon. The role of the Udāna within the...
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Nov 71 min read
Dhammapada: A Translation
An anthology of verses attributed to the Buddha long recognized as one of the masterpieces of early Buddhist literature. This edition has...
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Nov 51 min read
Noble Strategy: Essays on the Buddhist Path
This first collection of essays is recommended for new practitioners. Includes: Affirming the Truths of the Heart, Karma, The Road to...
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Nov 51 min read
The Noble Eightfold Path: 13 Meditation Talks
The Noble Eightfold Path forms the framework for all the Buddha’s teachings. It was the first topic he mentioned in his first sermon, and...
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Nov 51 min read
Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path (dhammatalks.org)
For the past several decades, a growing flood of books, articles, and teachings has advanced theories about the practice of mindfulness...
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Nov 51 min read
The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon
Not for beginners, but the essential guide to practicing the Buddhist Path, following the Buddha’s own summary of his teachings. The 37...
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Nov 51 min read
The Karma of Questions: Essays on the Buddhist Path
This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay ‘Perennial Issues,’ and Pāli...
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Nov 51 min read
Karma Q & A: A Study Guide
Kamma and rebirth are often understood to be teachings of fate and helplessness in the face of unknowable influences from the past....
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Nov 51 min read
The Karma of Mindfulness : The Buddha’s Teachings on Sati and Kamma
A series of talks on the relationship between the two central Buddhist concepts of karma (kamma) and mindfulness (sati). The talks show...
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Nov 51 min read
Poems of the Elders: An Anthology from the Theragāthā & Therīgāthā
This is an anthology consisting of 97 poems from the Theragāthā (Poems of the Elder Monks) and 34 from the Therīgāthā (Poems of the Elder...
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Nov 51 min read
Selves & Not-self: The Buddhist Teaching on Anattā
A series of eight talks on anatta, or not-self, given at a ten-day retreat in Provence, France. Also there are relevant selections from...
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Nov 51 min read
Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness, Death, & Separation
Passages from the Pāli Canon arranged in five sections: the Buddha as physician; diagnoses of the conditions of aging, etc.; the...
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Nov 51 min read
With Each & Every Breath: A Guide to Meditation
A breath meditation manual by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu drawing on two sources: the Buddha’s own set of instructions on how to use the breath in...
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