Faith is ‘the first of the five spiritual faculties’ taught by the Buddha; but in English it has many associations – ‘blind faith’, ‘leaps of faith’, faith as the alternative to ‘reason’ and so on. Vishvapani speaks about what faith means for Buddhists in...
Education focuses more and more on learning skills. The Buddhist idea of ethics as skilfulness makes a link between ordinary skills and he rely of ethics and spiritual life. Skill and Skilfulness - Thought for the Day 30.01.2018 by Vishvapani...
Can We Create a Mindful Society? http://www.wiseattention.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Can-Mindfulness-Change-Society-Vishvapani.mp3 Society faces an array of challenges that require us to attend to our minds and mental states. The mental health crisis, the...
http://www.wiseattention.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tftd170912.mp3 In Burma Buddhists are committing atrocities against Muslim Rohingyas. We must speak out, not just against the violence, but the very idea of a Buddhist nation that underpins it. Thought for the...
Police officers, and others in the public sector, often care deeply about what they do. But pressure is growing and stress is rising. Buddhist-inspired emotional intelligence can speak to these difficulties The president of the Police Superintendents’...
We need to establish ground rules for how data is used and intelligent machines operate. What goals does Buddhism propose? Listen Thought for the Day 1.7.2017 https://www.wiseattention.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/tftd170701.mp3 Recent cyber attacks on the NHS and...
