As the saying goes, “The tongue wounds more than a lance”; a careless slip of the tongue can be the cause of misfortune. The Sutra of...

Once the Buddhist faith becomes second nature to people, there is a tendency for their practice to turn into a formality that, while...

Life is full of trials and tribulations, and a child must learn how to overcome them. The Chinese character for "parent" is said to...

The world of the hungry spirits resembles the real world, in which those who have plenty are concerned only with fulling their own...

I noted earlier that the Buddha's half-opened eyes show that he is looking within himself even as he gazes out at the external world. ...