Buddhism in daily life - Mindfulness in every day tasks

Dreams TO BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS IS TO SPEND YOUR LIFE SLEEPING - CHINESE PROVERB - We should not live in the future, nor in the past, but in the here and now! This is what the historical Buddha taugh...

4 Feb 20235min

The Gift In a distant Chinese village lived a well-known Buddhist Chan master, he had a small school, people revered him very much. His students liked to be near him, the master was educated, white, a...

3 Feb 20235min

Computer game Imagine life in 200 years, a new computer game has been launched. A simulation of the past, the game is set in our present time. The people of the future have merged with the computer, t...

2 Feb 20236min

Buddhism and the flag The following story has been handed down from the patriarch Hui Neng: As a young man, he passed by a monastery, and two monks were standing in front of a flagpole, arguing. One m...

1 Feb 20234min

The bell Why do we find bells in almost all Buddhist temples? When we strike a bell, where does the noise, the people, the sound come from? Was the sound in the bell? Or in the clapper that strikes th...

31 Jan 20234min

Just do it "I hear and forget, I see and remember, I do and understand." - Chinese Proverb - Original: 我听见就忘记了，我看见就记住了，我做了就了解了。 "Wǒ tīngjiàn jiù wàngjìle, wǒ kànjiàn jiù jìzhùle, wǒ zuòle jiù liǎojiěl...

30 Jan 20235min

Yesterday is over Yesterday is irretrievably behind us, yesterday is history! Yesterday exists only in our memory, has passed, what happened, we can no longer change. Getting angry about the past does...

29 Jan 20235min

Who is right? Long ago, in a Buddhist temple, two monks argued about the content of a sacred text. Each wanted to be right, his own view seemed only logical to him, the opinion of the monk's brother a...

28 Jan 20236min