anicca

Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu was born in 1906, the son of a southern Thai mother and an ethnic Chinese father. He followed Thai custom by entering a local monastery in 1926, studied for a couple years in Bangkok, and then founded his own refuge for study and practice in 1932. Since then, he has had a profound … Read more

“My first residence at Suan Mokkh then was just a small earth-floored hut with a thatched roof, attap-strip walls, and a floor area of three or four stretchers. It was built next to a galvanized iron-sheet covered shack which was built to house a big Buddha statue. Formerly, the shack was wall-less; it was built … Read more

Any physical action, spoken word, or thought ought to be done with a crystal clear mind that doesn’t regard anything as “this” or “that” no longer made nasty and dangerous by clinging. Whichever “Me” or “Mine” arises, can’t you see they’re just the concoctions of sankhara? Claiming things to be “Self” is criminal, in other … Read more

“…The study of Nibbāna in daily life is possible in order to have a better understanding of and a greater interest in Nibbāna’s meaning. When seeing a fire go out or something hot cooling down, look for the meaning of Nibbāna in it. When bathing or drinking ice water, when a breeze blows or rain … Read more

“…When there’s love for others, there’s no taking advantage, no causing of even a little harm. Paraphrasing the scripture, it’s said that on seeing through the eyes of love, all people will mingle together like milk and water – milk mixing easily with water. If there’s no love for others, that can’t happen, just as … Read more

“…Nibbāna is death before dying. Death before death? If this isn’t understood properly it just sounds insane, but let the ‘I,’ the ‘me,’ the defilements that are ‘me’ and ‘mine,’ let them die before the body breaks up and that’s ‘death before dying.’ The defilements that cause the feeling of ‘self’ die, hence the ‘me’ … Read more