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How Buddhist Monks Celebrate Christmas

One December, the Western monks at my Thai teacher Ajahn Chah’s Western forest monastery decided to put up a Christmas tree. The villagers who built...

The Storytelling Mind (Part Two)

(Read Part One of The Storytelling Mind) When we look at the constant and repetitive process of our own thinking, we see how habitually it...

The Storytelling Mind

  When I first took robes and entered the monastic community of Ajahn Chah, I had already been practicing meditation for two years. Now, sitting...

Disentangling from the Story

It is a great relief to discover that our stories do not fully define who we are, or what is happening to us.  One practitioner...

Audio: The Ten Perfections Dharma Talk

Contemplating the perfections of the Buddha (such as generosity, morality, concentration, loving-kindness, and wisdom) and investigating the ways in which he developed these qualities may...

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