Revised December 6, 2016 (#9); Re-revised December 20, 2016; November 22, 2018; January 3, 2019; June 5, 2022; September 17, 2022; August 4, 2023 Chỉnh sửa ngày 06/12/2016 (#9); chỉnh sửa lại ngày 20/12/2016; ngày 22/11/2018; ngày 03/01/2019; ngày 05/06/2022; ngày 17/09/2022; ngày 04/08/2023 Our distresses and sufferings are due to our defiled minds. As […]
September 2, 2016; Revised November 24, 2016 (#9); Revised April 17, 2017; re-written March 22, 2020; revised #4 May 20, 2021; June 26, 2022 (revised #14 ); August 10, 2022; November 13, 2022; January 26, 2023 (#12); May 23, 2024 Ngày 2/9/2016; sửa 24/11/2016 (#9); sửa 17/4/2017; viết lại 22/3/2020; sửa #4 ngày 20/5/2021; 26/6/2022 […]
May 13, 2019; revised May 14, 2019; August 27, 2022; rewritten December 6, 2024; revised April 19, 2025 Ngày 13/05/2019; sửa ngày 14/05/2019; 27/08/2022; viết lại ngày 06/12/2024; sửa ngày 19/04/2025 August 27, 2022: This replaces an old post in this section entitled, “Saṅkhāra and Kammā, Viññāṇa and Kamma Bīja.” I have re-written it with […]
Revised November 26, 2017 Sửa ngày 26/11/2017 In the previous introductory post, “What is “Saŋ”? Meaning os sansāra (or saṁsāra),” we introduced the term “saṅkhāra”, and in the next post saṅkhāra was discussed in somewhat technical terms. Since it is such an important term, in this post I will discuss it in a bit more […]
Revised May 12, 2016; February 23, 2019; May 27, 2022; August 27, 2022; March 16, 2023; May 23, 2023 (#3) Sửa ngày 12/05/2016; 23/02/2019; 27/05/2022; 27/08/2022; 16/03/2023; 23/05/2023 (#3) There is much confusion about these words. These are key Dhamma concepts, and one needs to sort them out to understand other key concepts like rebirth […]
July 19, 2021; revised December 11, 2022 Ngày 19/7/2021; sửa đổi ngày 11/12/2022 Anicca Nature – Connection to the First Noble Truth Bản chất Anicca – Mối liên hệ với Sự thật Cao quý Thứ nhất In the previous post, we discussed inter-relationships among the “three pillars of Buddha Dhamma,” i.e., the Four Noble Truths, […]
July 14, 2021 Ngày 14/07/2021 Noble Truths – Deeper Aspect of Buddha Dhamma Tứ Diệu Đế – Khía cạnh Sâu hơn của Dhamma của Đức Phật Most Buddhists today follow the “superficial” or “mundane” version of the Buddha Dhamma, which is to live a moral life. “Secular Buddhists” –who don’t believe in rebirth — fall […]