Like tending a seedling – Cultivate your meditation

Imagine you just planted an apple tree. Well, you actually took one little apple seed and found a nice spot for it to grow. Then you covered it with some earth and sprinkled water over the spot. Every day you come back to see – nothing. The days go by and by the time it [...]

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Buddha or Arahant? – Don’t take the finger for the moon!

What is the difference between a Buddha and an Arahant? Before “deciding” which way to go, lets hear what the Buddha has to say on this topic: At Savatthi… “Monks, the Tathagata — the worthy one, the fully enlightened one, who from disenchantment with form, from dispassion, from cessation, from lack of clinging (for form) [...]

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