This is the short advice taught by the Buddhas who do not teach the full Disciplinary Code (Pātimokkha), which as a rule of thumb it is nevertheless hard to beat.
BWV 006: A Wise Man’s Duties
The Buddha explains the five duties which, when fulfilled, lead to prosperity and not to decline.
E-books page on Ancient Buddhist Texts
New E-books page for Ancient Buddhist Texts, where the whole English section is now available in epub and mobi format complete with attractive covers.
BWV 005: Four Ways to spend one’s Wealth
The Buddha gives instructions to the young man Sigāla on the four kinds of friends, and then tells him how to keep them.
Flip-books on Ancient Buddhist Texts
English texts are now uploaded to a new and rather good-looking platform for the publication of pdfs, which automatically converts the files to flip-books, which are quick to load and present nicely in the browser.
BWV 004: Eight things Leading to Prosperity
Revision of the Materials on Mindfulness on ABT
I have just completed what turned out to be a major revision of the materials on Mindfulness on the Ancient Buddhist Texts website.
BWV 003: The Six Gateways to Benefit
A son asked his Father (the Bodhisatta) for advice on the spiritual life. The Father explained these six gateways leading to great benefit in life.
Ven. Nyanavimala’s Advice
Ven. Ñāṇavimala was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1955. After twelve years of study and meditation at Island Hermitage, he set out bare-footed on continuous walking tour. These are recollections of some of his teachings by a former disciple.
BWV 002: True Cultivation
This verse is a well-known summary of the teaching, given by all the Buddhas. In some of the Dispensations it replaced the more detailed teaching found in the Rules of Discipline (Vinaya).
Flip-book, pdf and audio files of Pain, Stress and Illness by Bhikkhu Sumedha
A pdf copy of Bhikkhu Sumedha’s work A Buddhist Perspective on Pain, Illness and Stress for anyone to download and print out for themselves.
BWV 001: One should be Amenable to Admonition
Two Kings renounced the world and lived as ascetics. One day they fell into a quarrel about who should admonish the other.
Lanna Orchid Ensemble of Chiang Mai University
Traditional music from Lanna played by the Lanna Orchid Ensemble of Chiang Mai University which I have been using as background music to slideshows of the photographs I made in Chiang Mai.
Video of Murals in Viharn Lai Kham, Wat Phra Singh, Chiang Mai
Video of murals inside Viharn Lai Kham, which date from the mid-19th century and illustrate two non-Canonical Jataka Stories, using pan and zoom techniques to animate the photographs.
Light on Pāḷi Pronunciation by Ledi Sayadaw
A translation of the first eight of the explanations in the Niruttidīpanī by Ledi Sayadaw, which deal with the sound-system and pronunciation in Pāḷi.
New Translation of the Thematic Discourses about Nuns
Publication of a text and translation of the Bhikhhunīsaṁyuttaṁ which contains some very profound teachings, in various formats, including audio.
Monastic Dawnrise and Midday
A new calculator to find out the correct time for dawnrise and midday which are crucial for many of the monastic disciplinary rules and for lay people undertaking the uposatha.
Bhante Anandajoti: The Four Assemblies
A Dhamma talk about the original intentions behind the organisation of the Buddhist community, how that has changed over time, and the benefits there would be in returning to the Buddha’s original intentions.
Facebook Comments: Dynamic Urls on Static Pages
A note on how to insert the Facebook Commenting social plugin via javascript on static pages and make the url dynamic.
