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Contemplation in Everyday Living
Dharma practice in daily life lies in contemplation. The more insightful the contemplative training, the closer liberation is within reach. The longer and more immersive one trains in contemplation, the sooner realization will follow.
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Inner Stability of Body and Mind through the Six Principles
Remember the Six Principles for Daily Living? They are: One Mindedness, Two Loves, Three Virtues, Four Givings, Five Excellences, and Six Perfections.
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Transcending the Sufferings of Samsara
The foremost purpose of practicing the Buddhadharma is to free ourselves from the suffering of samsara.
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The Non-abidance of the Mind
The view of practice is the Middle Way: it is not a matter of taking full delight in neither virtues nor non-virtues. Rather, our view is that “the mind does not abide in anything”—it does not fixate on any conditioned arising or changing circumstance.
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Work as Dharma Practice
Our guiding principle in life is that, “Life is the field of merit, and work is Dharma practice.”
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Transforming Habitual Tendencies
An authentic Dharma practitioner is fundamentally different from an ordinary person. Ordinary beings are caught in the cycle of afflictions, continually entangled as defilement breeds further defilement.