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The Healing the Bull is part of the Bodhi Leaves series, published by the Buddhist Publication Society in Sri Lanka. These are very small booklets on a wide range of topics.
It is a short story of an abused bull, who tells his story to a wise elephant and gets advice on the nature of his problems, and the way out of them from a turtle. The story is about letting go of hatred and aversion and the clinging to security, which allows one to be peaceful....
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An audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 18"Is Buddhism closely related to psychology? To some extent, yes - but with one tremendous difference: While psychology helps you to understand yourself intellectually and, at best emotionally, Buddhism helps you to get beyond the intellect to the actual experience of life itself. That's why applied Buddhism goes so much deeper than any school of psychology can ever claim to do..."
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Ana, Captain of a spaceship, is lost in what appears to be a black hole, but she soon discovers it is an energy field full of life bent on taking over her ship. Later, she and her crew are forced to enter a real Black Hole. She is forced her from her body as the ship passes through, and runs from another energy entity set loose in the ship. On the other side, the crew finds another live energy force that attacks their ship. They barely manage to escape...
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Once a person understands the rise and fall of all phenomena, then experiencing the worst that human life can give does not make one tremble. You know that it's something passing just as the wind passes your face. You don't know where that wind comes from, and you can't tell where that wind is going. All you know is that a wind is blowing. You don't know when that wind is going to end, nor if it will get stronger or weaker. Like the weather, the forecast...
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This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaf No. 105 by Ayya Khema, An Exhortation and Self-Image or Self-Knowledge.
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Self-identification with one's state of being is the great trap. So, we must first become aware of the props we use to maintain who we think we are. It begins with: "I'm a woman" or "I'm a man." There's strong identification. There's strong support for the ego, for that "I am" is the ego itself talking. Next, we...
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In our relationships with each other, with our families, we can begin to use wisdom as our refuge. That doesn't mean that we don't love, or that we don't grieve for our loved ones. It means that we're not dependent on our perceptions of our mother and father, children, or close friends. We're not dependent on them being who we think they are; we no longer believe that our happiness depends on their love for us, or their not leaving, not dying. We're...
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Clinging is the greatest possessiveness and attachment we have. As long as we cling we cannot see reality. We cannot see reality because clinging is in the way. Clinging colours whatever we believe to be true. Now it is not possible to say "all right, I'll stop clinging." We can't do that. The process of taking the "me" apart, of not believing any more that this is one whole, is a gradual one. But if meditation has any benefit and success, it must...
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If one practises the Dhamma to a limited extent, leading a house-hold life in accordance with righteous principles, then one experiences in return a limited measure of freedom; if one practises the Dhamma to a fuller extent, going forth into the homeless state of monkhood, dwelling in seclusion adorned with the virtues of a recluse, contemplating the rise and fall of all conditioned things, then one experiences a fuller measure of freedom; and if...
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As a profound thinker, as the most profound thinker the world has ever known, the Buddha had two ways of speaking to people. At one time he would address them in words that expressed the utmost depth of his knowledge. At other times he would tell them simple things within the compass of their ready understanding, in words that were taken from the ordinary speech used among themselves. In both modes of speech, he spoke what was true. But in the former...
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History has produced many great figures, but none in this present cycle or time as impressive and memorable as that of Siddhattha Gotama, the Sakyan prince who became the world's greatest spiritual guide. He was unique as a personality, and unique as a teacher. There have been countless Enlightened Ones before him and there will be more, as long as samsara endures, but he is the only one of whom we have actual historical knowledge, and his life has...
13) Dark Path
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Healthy residents of a posh assisted living facility are dying in the middle of the night ... expressions of pure terror etched on their faces. After solving a series of unexplained deaths several years ago, forensic pathologist Dr. Bodhi King retreated from the limelight. Now, he's called out of early retirement to help investigate a death cluster on a private island in the Florida Keys, where he lands in the middle of a simmering conflict. Members...
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This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 72, 'The Development of the Will' and 'Perfection of Energy' found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. III as well as at Buddhist Publication Society. Excerpt from The Development of Will by Wladyslaw Misiewicz No force in the human system can be properly used unless it is rightly directed. As the will is the only factor in man that has the power to direct or control, a thorough development...
15) Hidden Path
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A corpse in a cornfield. Neighbor waging war against neighbor. A journal written in code. Forensic pathology Bodhi King's silent retreat at Buddhism monastery hasn't been as contemplative, or silent, as he hoped. Bodhi's plan was to meditate on the meaning of a recent run-in with an old flame, but instead he's pressed into service to identify a murdered stranger. He teams up with a pair of federal agents, a bold, brainy plant pathologist, and the...
16) Lonely Path
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Dr. Bodhi King returns in this forensic thriller series to uncover the cause of a puzzling spate of deaths in Canada. Bodhi's honored when he's invited to present a paper at an international forensic pathology conference. He's stunned when he learns that his old flame is a fellow panelist. It's been more than a decade since Bodhi broke Eliza's heart. He convinces her to join him for dinner in the Quebec countryside so he can make amends. On the way...
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By performing an act of body, speech or mind as the outcome of one's volition, one also creates a possibility to act in a similar way in future. One, so to speak, lays foundations for creating a way of behaving, a habit or a tendency. In other words, one adds some new or strengthens some old feature of one's personality, perpetuating thereby one's state of conditioned existence and determining the quality of one's future character.
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Kapuri, the she-elephant, noticed that a new dog, or rather, a new dam, had come into the temple premises. There were, of course, two canines residing there already, Kalu and Sudu. When the new dam walked in, somewhat timidly at first, Kapuri noticed that Sudu became greatly agitated. She growled and snarled and barked to no end at the newcomer, despite the latter's gentle demeanour, and even tried to attack her. The newcomer, whose name was Sukhi,...
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The nature of our heart is such that whenever it clings and grasps there is agitation and confusion. First it might wander over there, then it might wander over here. When we come to observe this agitation, we might think that it's impossible to train the heart and so we suffer accordingly. We don't understand that this is the way the heart is. There will be thoughts and feelings moving about like this even though we are practicing, trying to attain...
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