Mara, The Evil One
Enlightenment, or simply clear vision and freedom from, or at least deep knowledge and understanding of the force of the duality in everyone of us can…
King Bimbisara 2…this time it’s personal
In King Bimbisara 2, we come up against the problem with desire. In too many ways in our modern society are we worried about the doing…
Asalah Puja
Saturday marked the Buddhist Festival of Asalah Puja. Dr. Serena Nimityongskul joined us to talk about it this morning. Here’s a look at our conversation. Guest:…
King Bimbisara and the Purposeful Idle Life
The story of King Bimbisara underlines what a bugger it is when you you’re down to your last faithful charioteer, but Siddartha is committed to this path. Don’t know what my wife and kids would think if I left here to go off with James the chauffeur, but as this is the supposed Gospel of Buddha, we can cut the guy some slack.
The Three Woes
At first it might seem futile to sit under a tree, meditating in order to overcome the three woes. To our minds looking through the lens of western modernity, it seems daft to think you could sit under a tree and somehow overcome what is after all, inevitable. Many of us will get sick, most of us get old and all of us die.
So what’s the point of this, it’s insurmountable surely?
The Ties of Life
The Ties of Life. A good news story, yes. But one with deeper meaning than the event itself. OK there’s a bit of spin as you’d expect. This guy Siddhattha sounds too good to be true after all. I bet he swatted a few mosquitoes in his time, got a bit pissed off when the gardeners disturbed his meditation, had a pollen allergy. hay fever drives me nuts!