If you don’t know what to do, you may take a risk. That’s our usual way and very easy. Or we think this is the most scientific and intel...

Buddha told us the four noble truths to destroy our easy way of scientific understanding or philosophical understanding. Those ways are ea...

Bay Area: tickets going fast for this week's screenings of WISDOM OF HAPPINESS—A-HEART--TO-HEART WITH THE DALAI LAMA... Berkeley's E...

So first of all, we should understand the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths explain why we suffer, and this intelligent world is fu...

Buddha says, “Every constituent existence is doomed to suffer.” Everything which we see, which we feel, which we can understand is full o...

That is why we say you should not recite sutras. Your true nature should recite sutras. Big mind recites, not small mind—sma...

Taiyo Lipscomb | Podcast - Taiyo Lipscomb came to the Zen Center in the mid seventies and was there for 23 years, becoming one of the...

Almost all people ignore our true existence and have some superficial understanding of what self is. What do they mean by self? They ignor...

  Margaret Ann Crowley, Anand Shakti  Just learned that Margaret Crowley died last April 21st in Lafayette, Colorado. She was born in Maryla...

[About inmost request.] Something—someone, I don’t know who it is, but someone tells us to do so. We hear that voice always, so I cannot h...