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Ksana - Pali Canon Search Engine & Reader
Even if you may be familiar with Tipitaka.Org's online Tipitaka search engine you might not know that this search engine is, indeed, open source software and free to download:http://www.ksana.tw/So with a 60MB download you get a web based complete ed...
no virtue - no meditation?
Why did the Buddha emphasis, over and over again, the necessity to keep the 5 basic precepts PURE in order to progress in meditation?Keep them for a couple of days while meditating and you will know!Nothing supports to sustain and enhance the results...
Vitakka & Vicara - What do they mean?
Or: How do i find my way to the first jhana?Let's say your meditation topic is Anapanasati (remembering the breath).So you would concentrate on breathing.If that is all you do, very soon, you would find yourself being lost in millions of thoughts. Ho...
Remembering previous lives
Please add to the list of Prof. Ian Stevenson, Dr. Jim Tucker, Dr. Raymond Moody, Francis Story and Thomas Shroder one other name: i found Prof Erlendur Haraldsson website this afternoon. Have a look at these three cases from Libanon:Case studies of ...
Bahiya's Bodhi
Do you have a favorite passage in the Suttapitaka?...Difficult question, there are so many gems. But this one is really special, IMHO. It's a ZEN Masters dream come true in the Pali canon:‘Tasmātiha te, bāhiya, evaṃ sikkhitabbaṃ – ‘diṭ...
