The 4 Jhana
A Howto: Go to a secluded place Close eyes take up a meditation topic and concentrate, for example on breathing in and out. Repeat ONE thought bringing back the mind and trying to “establish” it on this one topic implied…
Category: Dhamma
Pali Canon Search
… If you want to search through the Buddhist Pali Canon in English you can use this Google custom search: search.nibbanam.com This is like a Meta Search Engine: Many of the big online sutta repositories complement each other. Using this…
Palikanon Suche in Deutsch / Palikanon search in German
Tonight i launched a new webpages/services on nibbanam.com. It’s in a custom Google search for all Buddhist Pali Canon translations in German – something which i had in mind for a long time. I was using site:palikanon.com quite too often…
Western Theravada
I just found this very interesting letter by Hans Gruber in the Asian Tribune (June 8, 2007) regarding a controversy around the Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahathera. The observation made by Gruber in the following few lines are very notable. I think…