Buddhism culture and traditions

Why is continuity like "the light of a lamp"?

Consider then the magician and the philosopher

Is modern capitalism inherently opposed to Buddhism?

Does Vipassana arise from Samatha/Anapanasati meditation? or is it another trap of monkey mind?

Was this world built by mistake?

Is the lotus position more prone to knee injury?

Is Mahasi Sayadaw's "counterfeit dhamma"?

How can I explain soullessness to other one?

Can we say cause/causes behind the world is/are eternal?

How is the Cognitive Process described according to Buddhism? How does it relate to modern Cognitive Psychology?

What's the aim of avoiding attachment?

Is unhappiness/happiness something more then negative/positive feeling?

MN 137 - Directed only to Stream Entrants (and beyond)?

Why does Mahasi Method have the points on the Body to attend to?

Two contradictory passages in the Majjhima Nikaya

Correct meditation Technique

Buddhism about the Big Bang and Science in general

Is it disrespectful or unlawful to have dharma tattoo in Sri Lanka?

What happens to one in a locked in syndrome?

Why is contributing to the market demand for meat not wrong?

Whose nirvana is it anyway?

Is Rupa an Experience?

In what ways have Buddhists responded to the apparent impossibility of saving all sentient beings?

Where is this mountain quote in the Sinhala edition?

Negation and the middle way

What is the appeal of not Re-incarnating?

What, if anything, do the texts say about habits versus mindulfness?

Time and duration to meditate

Forced suppression of all cravings including harmless ones

Buddha teaches the extinguishing of suffering, what if an individual is okay with suffering?

Is suffering dependent on aging & death? If so, how is suffering experienced before & after death?

Mastery of skills outside the Buddhist path and desire

Buddhist Ontology/Reductionism vs Science

Has any Buddhist meditator claimed that the mano-vijnana has a base to differentiate it from the other consciousnesses?

Mala in Zen Practice

For what reason did the Dali Lama's traditional daily schedule have washing before meditation?

Can Buddhists be good workplace leaders?

The Four Nutriments: what do the metaphors in SN 12.63 mean?

What to do if (somehow involuntarily) one kills an animal?

Music or ambient sounds for meditation?

Is it correct that dependent origination will cease to exist if one doesn't have 12 nidanas?

Can there be an action free from the taint of desire? If there can be, what is the nature of that action?

Orgasm and Virya

Sutta references

Does a Buddha see the heart objectively?

The relation between Dhamma and reality itself

Buddhism and Stereotyping Perceptions

How do you know which mantra suits you the most?

Stephen Batchelor's current meditation practice

Do I need parents' permission to renounce?

Did Lord Buddha gain enlightenment by inquiring into death?

Does the wicked have a better bargain at death in Buddhism?

Was Jesus a Buddhist monk named Issa?

Doesn't pīti mean love?

How to actually do death contemplation?

How to cure "if I blamed someone who we should not blame"?

Which commentary on the MMK should be studied first?

A question on MN 39 Mahā- Assapura Sutta

Does 'karma' mean that everything that happens to us is under our control, or only that we are responsible for it?

What are the elements (Mahābhūta) references in the Sarvastivada Satipaṭṭhāna?

Avoiding inner narration while practising Anapanasati

How should I spend my day, according to Lord Buddha teachings?

Vipassana retreat while in post acute withdrawal?

Who is ignorant and when does one realize that one is ignorant?

Buddha Statue Identification and Explanation

Motivation and long-term practice

Is the abhidhammic view on mind an externalist or internalist one?

In any Buddhist Context, is there a Necessary Existent

References on Rupa and Arupa Jhana through Brahma Vihara

Benefits of Producing and Caring for Children

How are the importance of sutras determined?

what is the difference between Anapanasati and the Satipatthana

Any ideas about the energy feel I constantly have?

Is there any meditation technique to develop the feeling of Gratitude?

Origin of the idea that happiness must be nurtured

Is this a beginning of anatta? Where to go from here?

How can people meet again after rebirth?

Are absences empty / conceptual constructions, according to all Buddhists?

Is Buddhism the Way of Truth?

What makes people care about others behind their backs?

Are good deeds superficial?

What is the exact Age Limit that Buddha can live?

Changing of questions and the precept of not speaking what is not true

What is the difference between nama-rupa and the five skandhas?

What's the different between kusala (good) and akusala (bad)?

Buddhism and organ donation

What's the role/relevance of drugs when Arada taught Buddha?

Does Theravada believe in feeding food to hungry ghosts?

How personality view disappears?

What is the oldest text/sutra of the Mahayana tradition?

What is the difference between Satipatthana and Vipassana?

Desperate for help about intent and my fears

How does a monk address parents and relatives?

If science can't prove the existence of other dimensions forever

Need some pointers about the current phase

What causes addictions and what is the remedy?

Any reconstructions of earliest mentioned classification of canon?

5 Skandhas / 5 aggregates

Isnt the desire for giving up the desires, a desire?

Going to first session

What is the source and meaning of this quote of the Buddha's: "Everything rests upon the tip of intention"?

According to Theravada tradition, was Siddharta Gautama illuminated after meditating under the Bodhi tree?

Is it true that its always thoughts that creates emotions?

Does downvoting an answer qualify as divisive and harsh speech?

Translation of Pali term "Arati"

Posadha 8th precept

Is nirvana a conceptual construction?

Bodhi day celebration, is it universally on December 8th or do some Mahayana buddhists use a lunar calendar?

Buddhadasa and the continuity of suffering beyond physical death, without rebirth

Does thinking during an action improve the quality of the action or reduce it?

Sankhara conditions vinjana dependent origination

Increases in Physical Energy, Virya

How to not to attach to the vinaya?

can any one please explain me the significance of Talipot fan in Buddhism?

How can a person be abstinent?

Tirokudda Kanda: Do the dead really benefit from the gift given by the living?

Different Reasons of Dhamma's Decline

Why do I get a feeling on my forehead as if someone is touching it during meditation?

In which text first time "Gautama leaving Yashodhara for searching truth" story is written?

Can we rely on Buddha's quotes found on internet?

Milarepa and Avalokiteshvara practice

What is the best introductory (but comprehensive) book on SECULAR Buddhism?

What's the relation between feelings of neither-pleasure-nor-pain and ignorance?

Lord Buddha descending from heavens?

Remembering past lives

Characteristics of Sotàpanna person (Stream Enterer)

Pushing onself too much?

Help finding “Breath Energy” as described by Thanissaro Bhikku

Has Buddha attained Nirvana after death?

Mindfulness of brain -- references?

Can meditation heal physical diseases?

Self-Compassion and Wisdom

Was the Buddha against violence in all situations?

Is insecticide treated mosquito nets against 1st precept?

Is the conventional self "conventional" in the same way as dharmas are?

Is lazyness a killer?

Statues I can't find anything about

When is an ideology a religion and not just philosophy, or a way of living?

Is "ghost month" really a Buddhist concept?

why is all of Buddhas past lifes referes to times of kings

When a man life becomes complete

Understanding Right view

Would a true Buddhist engage in the No True Scotsman fallacy?

What are the arguments Yogacara makes to deny the reality of sensory objects?

Is there a list of (all the) Suttas that mention supranormal powers?

How to pronounce Ksana?

Stories and teachings that glorify adult children and speak against toxic parenting

Determination and Impermanence

The pali word for this concept

Five tricks to avoid unwholesome kamma

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