by Rick Hanson | Apr 6, 2025 | Buddhist Wisdom
Introduction Buddhism is a 2500 year-old tradition offering practical ways anyone can use to suffer less – and ultimately, to find an unshakeable calm happiness and a selflessly compassionate heart. The historical Buddha, and most of the great teachers who have...
by Rick Hanson | Apr 6, 2025 | Buddhist Wisdom
This is the one-way path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentations, for the passing away of pain and dejection, for the attainment of the true way, for the realization of Nibbana – namely, the four establishments of...
by Rick Hanson | Aug 31, 2007 | Buddhist Wisdom
I try to get our son, age 4, to share his toys, etc. with his younger sister or the kids at school, but everything is always, “No! Mine!” with him. I feel like I am swimming upstream, pushing against his nature. Then I think about the world and sometimes I wonder, are...
by Rick Hanson | Aug 6, 2007 | Buddhist Wisdom
The Four Noble Truths are the most fundamental teaching of the Buddha. Deceptively simple, they actually provide a profound explanation of human unhappiness, both gross and subtle, and how to attain increasingly positive states of mind, from stress relief in daily...
by Rick Hanson | Jul 18, 2007 | Buddhist Wisdom
© Rick Hanson, Ph.D., 2007 Introduction These statements about reality, about the way things really are, are central to Buddhism, and you can test them for yourself: Everything happens because of preceding causes. Everything, both inside our minds and outside in the...
by Rick Hanson | Apr 26, 2007 | Buddhist Wisdom
What is mindfulness? Spacious presence Focused attention Wakefulness Recollecting recognition of experience Generally, mindfulness in the Buddhist sense entails being: Relaxed Aware Receptive Inclusive The reasons for continuity of mindfulness: Any mindfulness is a...
