Death is inevitable but oftentimes, it's often not thought about deeply by practitioners mostly due to ignorance (avijjā) and the craving for existence (bhava-taṇhā). No matter how old or young you are, your time in this existence is limited and unknowable and that's why the Buddha mentioned that one must repeatedly reflect that "I must be parted and separated from all I hold dear and beloved." Every person born into this world will inevitably face death. That's why the Buddh

Due to being conditioned by our surroundings or peers to believe that having an inquisitive mind or investigating things leads to better...

Princess Yasodharā was the wife of Prince Siddhartha, before he renounced to achieve Buddhahood. Yasodharā gave birth to their only...

Nāmarūpapaccayā Saḷāyatanaṃ With mentality and materiality as condition, six sense bases arises. The next link in the Dependent...

Mental defilements (kilesa) can distort the mental states of sentient beings and because of such distortions, sentient beings perceive,...

Viññāṇapaccayā nāma-rūpaṃ With consciousness as condition, mentality-materiality arises. What is Nāma? Nāma is broadly defined as...