Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Complete Sangharakshita 100 weekly quotes

By Jnanadhara on Fri, 19 Dec, 2025 - 16:17

I’ve attached a document that includes all the quotes for the year. You’ll find this in English and in Spanish. There is a word doc version and a pdf. You might like to share on your webpages, social media, sangha emails, etc.  (Note the quotes started a little bit into the year so there are a few weeks at the beginning of the year that don’t have a quote.)

I’d especially like to thank Saddhajoti in Cuernavaca, Mexico; Bodhikamala in Toluca, Mexico;...

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sangharakshita_100_-_complete_weekly_quotes_-_english.docx116.76 KB
sangharakshita_100_-_citas_semanales_completas_-_espanol.docx130.8 KB
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Saddhamma Pradeep Retreat Center

Dighajanu Sutta

By Saddhammapradip on Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 - 17:33

 Dighajanu Sutta.

The four things lead to the welfare and happiness of a gentleman in this life.

1. Accomplishment in Initiative.

2. Accomplishment in Protection.

3. Accomplishment in Good Friendship.

4. Accomplishment in Balance Finances

And

The four things lead to the welfare and happiness of a gentleman in future lives.

1. Accomplishment in Faith,

2. Accomplishment in Ethics,

3. Accomplishment in Generosity, and

4. Accomplishment in Wisdom.

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Shabda Articles
Shabda Articles

Book Review: "The Blind Spot" OM

By Dhammaloka on Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 - 16:48

Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson: The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience. Cambridge/Mass; London: MIT Press 2024

If you have read Evan Thompson’s book Why I Am Not A Buddhist you may remember him inviting – if not urging – contemporary Buddhists to not only bring the critical potential of traditional Buddhist philosophy and practice to bear on science but also open up to being challenged by science in their assumptions, views and doctrines. In parts, his...

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From blind to selfless selfing OM

By Dhammaloka on Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 - 12:51

There are four parts to the essay posted here as a pdf.

First, I will outline what I mean by ‘selfing’ and ‘minding’ and in what sense the way Buddhists tend to talk about self and mind seems problematic to me. Can we usefully think about ‘self’ in a way that does justice to the Buddhist project? I will argue that to be alive is to be engaged in a continuous process of ‘selfing’ by which an organism, in unbroken interaction with...

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