- What Did the Buddha Really Say About a Mother's Love?
Doug takes up three passages that seem to pull against one another: the Mettā Sutta's image of a mother's love for her only child as the model of boundless kindness, the Buddha's words to a grieving grandmother that those with a hundred…
- Buddha's Advice On The Dangers Of Affection May Surprise You!
Affection can be dangerous, this is some of the surprising and even shocking advice the Buddha gives in the early suttas. I'll look at what the Buddha said about some of affection's problematic role in lay and monastic life, as well as…
- The Paradox of Greed
We often feel that the more we have, the happier we will be. Is that really so? We will take a look at the paradox of greed using a story from the Buddha's teaching.