CONTEMPLATING SUFFERING When you create suffering potential within the mind, that potential can be purified, if it's not purified suffering will be experienced. If it's experienced in this life and becomes habitual behavior at the end of life the suffering will appear strongly in the mind and will be probable propelling karma into the hell realms. Conversely, if you are very kind during your life then kindness would be the propelling karma into heavenly realms. WHAT ARE HELL REALMS? Hell is an experience of the mind, there. A collective of beings who have created similar karma to s ..read more

DHARMA OR DRAMA? Building up our dharna practice Testing our practice Rejoicing in our dharma progress Appreciation of emptiness teachings SAMSARA TO NIRVANA Comprehending our ignorance Getting in touch with our suffering The antidote to suffering is wisdom Comprehending the emptiness of suffering THE SUPREME ANTIDOTE TO SUFFERING Comprehending dependent origination is the supreme antidote to the sensation of suffering that changes the way that we respond to samsara, "Dependent arising has a profound implication, it connotates that if one is not satisfied with the mere appearance of an o ..read more

The 12 Links of Dependent Arising Ignorance Compositional action Consciousness Name and form The 6 sources Contact Feeling Craving Grasping Existence Rebirth Ageing and death ..read more

RENUNCIATION Renunciation isn't related to the appearance of your surroundings. it is the self-cherishing state of mind that diminishes as your heart opens when walking on the Bodhisattva path accompanied by a deep understanding that all sentient beings deserve our compassion. THE SUFFERING OF PAIN The experience of unpleasant feelings, the manifest suffering which is easy to identify, such as pain in the body and emotional suffering. We need to be aware of the pain and suffering within samsara. THE SUFFERING OF CHANGE Suffering and its alleviation (happiness), both have the n ..read more

WHY THE BUDDHA TAUGHT SUFFERING FIRST Know the suffering then there is nothing more to know. Abandon the source then there is nothing more to abandon. Attain the cessation then there is nothing more to attain. Meditate on the path, then there's nothing more to meditate on. Suffering, its cause, cessation, and path are to be known, abandoned, attained, and practiced. THE EIGHT SUFFERINGS Suffering is related to Karma Each time we take rebirth we experience sufferings related to Birth Aging Sickness Death Meeting the unpleasant Separation from the pleasant Not getting what is desired The fiv ..read more

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS WHEEL OF DHARMA SUTRA Each of the four noble truths has four parts, making up sixteen aspects of the four noble truths. True suffering has... Impermanence Misery Emptiness Selflessness True source has... Cause Source Strong production Condition True cessation has... Cessation Pacification Abundance Definite emergence True path has... Path Knowledge Achievement Deliverance HOW DO WE ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE? We achieve liberation from cyclic existence through realising the third and fourth noble truths, true cessation, and true path. Realising them ..read more

HOW DO WE ACHIEVE LIBERATION FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE? We achieve liberation from cyclic existence through realising the third and fourth noble truths, true cessation, and true path. Realising them depends on first realising the first two truths, namely true suffering, and true source. You need to know true suffering to be the very nature of cycling existence and then you are motivated to escape ..read more

                                        Keeping a Karma Diary  positive negative  8 am     10 am 12 pm  2 pm  4 pm  6 pm  8 pm  Set a timer to remind you every two hours, to STOP. Pause in the midst of your busy life, and look back over the last two hours. What happened? Positive, then negative. Just a few words or a sentence. If you are monitori ..read more

THE REALMS OF CYCLIC EXISTENCE Cyclic existence is composed of three realms, the desire realm, the form realm, and the formless realm. The desire realm has six divisions, the hell realm, the hungry ghost realm, the animal realm, the human realm, the demi-god realm, and the god realm. Above the desire realm, are the four levels of the form realm, where there are 17 classes of gods born amongst the four levels according to which of the four stages of meditative absorption they have previously achieved. Above the highest levels of the form realm are the four levels of the formless level, here all ..read more

WHAT IS KARMA? Karma is often referred to as "cause and effect", however, the meaning of the word karma in Sanskrit means just action. it's implicit that when there is action something will happen in return. It covers the action that you are doing, the cause, the imprints made onto the mind from the actions motivated by delusion, and the results of those actions. The law of karma is, therefore, the law of cause and effect and referrers to the inevitable production of a certain future result by any action. An understanding of karma is the key to creating the future result yo ..read more