by Ajahn Kovilo | Jun 11, 2024 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
Download PDF * This is the text of “The Wellbeing Cascade: Natural Passages Through Pāmojja”, a book featuring all instances of the wellbeing cascade in the Pāli Canon. Click here for the related article, “Wellbeing Cascading: Radical Attention and...
by Ajahn Kovilo | Jun 11, 2024 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
Download PDF Download EPUB * This is the text of the book “Thus Should You Train Yourselves”, an exhaustive survey of the Buddha’s exhortations from the Pāli Canon addressed in the form “Thus … should you train yourselves”. Click here for the companion...
by Ajahn Kovilo | May 29, 2024 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
* This is an article on the causality of wellbeing (pāmojja), written as Ajahn Kovilo’s senior thesis for graduation from the Dharma Realm Buddhist University. Click here for the related book, “The Wellbeing Cascade: Natural Passages Through...
by Ajahn Kovilo | Aug 11, 2023 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
“‘The days and nights are relentlessly passing; how well am I spending my time?’ This should be reflected upon again and again by one who has gone forth.” (AN 10.48) Introduction There are an infinite number of ways that we could count our time. In one discourse (AN...
by Ajahn Kovilo | Jan 17, 2022 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
In Pali, there is a specific word for the feeling you get when you see a YouTube video of a five-year old giving his new toy fire engine to a homeless child on the street. It’s the same emotion you get when you’re meditating with your non-Buddhist sibling...
