Pariyatti Journal

Right Understanding

Right understanding has to illuminate every single part of the practice of Vipassana. The Buddha called it sammā-diṭṭhi. In Pāli, diṭṭhi literally meant a view, or a philosophy. Then as now, there were many...

Right Understanding

Right understanding has to illuminate every single part of the practice of Vipassana. The Buddha called it sammā-diṭṭhi. In Pāli, diṭṭhi literally meant a view, or a philosophy. Then as now, there were many...

By Patrick Given-Wilson

Poem on the Path

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Poem on the Path

By SB

Dhamma Service

Gong

Day Zero. My hand shoots up ‘enthusiastically and emphatically’ (the centre manager’s words) when the request for an old student to sound the first gong is asked for. In the...

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Gong

Day Zero. My hand shoots up ‘enthusiastically and emphatically’ (the centre manager’s words) when the request for an old student to sound the first gong is asked for. In the...

By Shelley S

Let’s Talk About Mettā and Service

During a recent committee meeting at my local Dhamma center, we discussed alternative ways to encourage service because our meditation center, like many other Dhamma centers, is working through server...

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Let’s Talk About Mettā and Service

During a recent committee meeting at my local Dhamma center, we discussed alternative ways to encourage service because our meditation center, like many other Dhamma centers, is working through server...

By David Cohen

Kindness

Citta

This mind  waits to enlight, to befriend. Simply remains still holding close, for a moment of awareness from within. Sharing sensibly the guise of life,  in all its ardency.  Outside...

Citta

This mind  waits to enlight, to befriend. Simply remains still holding close, for a moment of awareness from within. Sharing sensibly the guise of life,  in all its ardency.  Outside...

By RSM