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Writings on meditation and Dharma by teachers of Original Nature

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Harmlessness (pali – ahimsa) is an aspect of the practice that applies to all areas of the Buddhist Path – from the everyday to the subtle. In a way one could say that this quality of heart, this intelligence, is the essential foundation of all spiritual practice. Read on…

Relating wisely to conventions – by Peter Fernando

When we come to spiritual practice, the forms and specific techniques we hear about and take up can have a lot of mystique about them. It is common for a new aspirant on the Buddhist path, for example, to become obsessed with certain ways of behaving, and to hold to them in all situations. Read on…

Sila – by Peter Fernando

The Buddha emphasized a dimension of everyday consciousness, or a resonance of heartfulness called síla as essential for living an awakened life, and as an indispensible basis for liberating the heart from suffering. In essence he encouraged: ‘Do beauty, get beauty. Do harm, get harm’. Read on…