"'Suppose there were a man, a slave, a labourer, getting up before you and going to bed after you, willingly doing wha…"

"Here, friend Sāriputta, a bhikkhu is a forest dweller himself and speaks in praise of forest dwelling; he is an almsf…"

"Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden, so too, the bhikkhu becomes content with r…"

"[The Buddha] advised bhikkhus to be an island (“'dìpa”') or a refuge for themselves. After his passing, their only su…"

"For years, ever since it was first published, the Bardo Thodol has been my constant companion, and to it I owe not on…"

"They [the instructions that the work gives for the person who has died] are so detailed and thoroughly adapted to the…"

"Not only the ‘wrathful’ but also the ‘peaceful’ deities are conceived as samsaric projections of the human psyche, an…"

""Many possess a neptic prayer but they do not even realize it," a hermit used to say."

"A monk used to say: "The prayer Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me; this is the foundation of monastic l…"

"An elderly monk, a worker of noetic prayer, said: "We should always say the Jesus Prayer. With every opportunity we s…"