Pariyatti

Story 6 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . My second epiphany took place after university, when I was teaching grade eight. I was on the front line, trying to hold the raging hormones of thirty-six students at bay long enough to stuff some important knowledge into their overly coiffed little heads.... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 45 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your...

Story 5 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . My first revelation occurred on a Friday evening just before my first year of university. I had the book list I needed for my courses, and a friend drove me to the uni bookstore. Books in hand,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 2 minutes 33 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio (1.4...

Story 4 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Because I had seldom, if ever, sat quietly in a room alone, the irony was that I thought my mind was akin to a well-oiled Bianchi racing bike. Of course, I was totally deluded. I had equated intelligence, literacy, strong opinions, and popularity with a beautiful mind—a Bianchi, if you will. In fact,... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 5 minut...

Story 3 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Self-introspection is not the strongest attribute of Homo sapiens . Our forefathers survived primarily because they were men of action, fleeing or fighting as the situation demanded. And they hunted in groups, perhaps the only time they were quiet. Sound familiar?... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 50 seconds Listen to Streaming Aud...

Story 2 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician and writer, once declared that “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” This is the most graphic summation of the conundrum of the human condition... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 3 minutes 04 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does n...

Story 1 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie . I left my small hut in the tribal area of the Western Ghats of Maharashtra early one morning to go for a run through the countryside. As I came over a small rise in the road, I found myself staring at a herd of water buffalo.... narrated by Ian McCrorie 2022 2 minutes 16 seconds Listen to Streaming Audio Your browser does not support the au...

Cultivating Inner Peace an interview with Paul R. Fleischman . Paul Fleischman, psychiatrist, author and long-time meditator, writes about the psychology, wisdom and poetry of those who have inspired him in his personal quest for harmony and happiness. The learnable qualities of peaceful living are brought into focus by examining the lives of diverse exemplars such as Mahatma Gandhi, Walt Whitman,...

A discussion with Bhikkhu Anālayo about his book "Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses." Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, sensation, feeling, or feeling tone. For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference...

The Equanimous Mind by Manish Chopra . The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) chronicles the author's first ten-day Vipassana meditation camp experience at the end of 2010 and the life-changing impact it has had on his personal and professional life since that time. This new second edition comes at an important milestone in Manish's journey as ten years have passed since that first ten-day retreat. A n...

A Lifetime Doing Nothing by Ian McCrorie . "In my experience, all our problems do indeed stem from this hyperactive and delusional thinking we have acquired over time. There is a way to eradicate the light-speed, blind reactions and the habitual confusion. The way is very simple. It boils down to just two words: do nothing. That s it. Do nothing. Sit quietly in a room alone and do nothing. Watch t...

Vipassana Meditation and the Scientific Worldview (2nd Edition) by Paul R. Fleischman . We have lived in an era during which the spirituality intrinsic to science has become obvious. The universe is not random. It contains patterns and paths. This is called the information-state of the universe, and it organizes the materials and energies that form our bodies and minds. We are each microcosms; dow...

Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest by Nyanaponika Thera . This is the audiobook version of the Wheel Publications booklet Wheel Publication No. 26, The Five Mental Hindrances, compiled and translated by the venerable scholar and founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, Nyanaponika Thera. It is a compilation of selected texts from the Pali Canon and its commentaries on the five obstacles...

Vipassana Meditation Talk by Patrick Given-Wilson . This is an introductory talk about Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka as presented online by Patrick Given-Wilson. This talk was hosted by the Stanton Library, North Council in October of 2021. Presented by Patrick Given-Wilson 2021 43 minutes Watch the video or download the audio. Download Audio (21 MB) video copyright, 2021 Sta...

Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns by Susan Elbaum Jootla . In this booklet we will be exploring poems composed by the Arahat bhikkhunis or enlightened Buddhist nuns of old, looking at these poems as springs of inspiration for contemporary Buddhists. Most of the poems we will consider come from the Therigatha, a small section of the vast Pali Canon. From the poems of the enlightened nuns of the Bud...

The Joy Hidden in Sorrow by Ayyā Medhānandī . Excerpt from The Joy Hidden in Sorrow by Ayyā Medhānandī In our relationships with each other, with our families, we can begin to use wisdom as our refuge. That doesn’t mean that we don’t love, that we don’t grieve for our loved ones. It means that we’re not dependent on our perceptions of our mother and father, children or close friends. We’re not dep...

The Elimination of Anger by Ven. K. Piyatissa Thera . This title contains two stories retold from Buddhist texts, The Reviler and The Anger-eating Demon . Narrated by Sophia Ojha 2017 31 minutes Listen to Streaming Audio Download Audio (46 MB) Audiobook copyright, 2017  Pariyatti 'The Elimination of Anger' can also be found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. 3 as well as...

The Development of the Will and Perfection of Energy by Wladyslaw Misiewicz and Shantideva . Excerpt from The Development of Will by Wladyslaw Misiewicz “No force in the human system can be properly used unless it is rightly directed. As the will is the only factor in man that has the power to direct or control, a thorough development of the will becomes absolutely necessary in order to have a cle...

Buddhist Therapy by Ruth Walshe . "Is Buddhism closely related to psychology? To some extent, yes - but with one tremendous difference: While psychology helps you to understand yourself intellectually and, at best emotionally, Buddhism helps you to get beyond the intellect to the actual experience of life itself. That's why applied Buddhism goes so much deeper than any school of psychology can eve...

An Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge Two Dhamma Talks by Ayya Khema . Let go of all self-images, of all ideations, of all hopes and plans. Then you can dwell in this particular moment—and no one can take that away from you. It can’t disappear, or be broken, or get lost. It just is. Security lies in the simple fact that in essence one has nothing and one is nothing. Narrated by Kalvin Ko...

The Buddha—A Unique Teacher from Bodhi Leaf No. 36 by Francis Story History has produced many great figures, but none in this present cycle or time as impressive and memorable as that of Siddhattha Gotama, the Sakyan prince who became the world’s greatest spiritual guide. He was unique as a personality, and unique as a teacher. There have been countless Enlightened Ones before him and there will b...

Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man from Bodhi Leaf No. 121 by Louis van Loon What makes one man poor and another rich is not only a question of material possessions, how much they consume or the extent to which they are able to satisfy their cravings. This is determined largely by the manner in which they subjectively experience and psychologically evaluate a feeling of well-being in th...

Chapter 28 - We Are Everywhere from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Solutions to the new, crowded, interconnected era will not be just technological but spiritual. They will embrace sorrow for what each individual life is not, for without conscious awareness of the sorrow that is intrinsic to individuality, there will be no possible solution to group self aggrandizing aggressio...

Chapter 27 - A Great Cry On Earth from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. The practices from which inner peace derives, and which it in turn furthers, transcend material reality without rejecting it. To find inner peace, a person must be turned completely around. A challenge is set before us by the radical perception of “the flow of nutriment,” which means: Is there anything more...

Chapter 26 - Our Inner Peace Is Earth's Frontier from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. Cultivating Inner Peace is the most important action we can take to help planet Earth, on whose back we all ride, whose breath we breathe, whose plants provide our food, and whose properly intense sunlight is the source of energy for the molecules that form our body. Rather than solipsistic di...

Chapter 25 - A Personal Experience of Vipassana Meditation from Cultivating Inner Peace by Paul R. Fleischman, M.D. I took my first Vipassana meditation course in 1974 under the guidance of Mr. Goenka... In those days, Vipassana wasn’t being taught in the West. I made several trips to India and returned with the technique half-learned. I didn’t know where it fit into my life, but I saw it as somet...