8 posts
Wisdom & Understanding
12 May 2026
Professor Jens Braarvig reveals how the Bodhisattva Piṭaka systematizes the bodhisattva path by integrating compassionate action with philosophical understanding of emptiness.
Difficulty & Resilience
30 April 2026
Buddhist mindfulness as a tool for outwitting digital algorithms and navigating social media —ancient wisdom for modern mental health, identity, and the ethical questions AI cannot answer.
Community & Ethics
4 April 2025
Discover the origins of the three-month rainy season retreat tradition in this conversation with 84000 research editor Dr. Bob Miller about The Chapters on Monastic Discipline.
Purpose & Meaning
9 July 2024
The Rice Seedling Sūtra offers a clear introduction to dependent arising —how all things arise from causes and conditions— connecting this foundational insight to impermanence, emptiness, rebirth, and the Eightfold…
Difficulty & Resilience
5 October 2023
Discover the Five Protections —ancient Buddhist scriptures personified as goddesses that offer a holistic approach to health crises, blending ritual, medicine, ethics, and environmental harmony to address everything from snakebites…
Human Relationships
16 March 2018
The Vimalakīrti Sūtra turns conventional spirituality upside down —revealing that wisdom comes not from eliminating messy emotions, but from understanding their true nature.
Community & Ethics
25 March 2014
This sūtra presents the bodhisattva Akāśagarbha as a guide for Mahayana ethics and purification, offering practitioners instructions for confessing transgressions and receiving spiritual cleansing through dreams.
Community & Ethics
14 April 2013
Purification of Karmic Obscurations reveals how the Buddha addresses violations of moral ethics—insights from the translation process.
