Dòng Pháp

Generosity, kindly speech, beneficial action and equal treatment: the four bases of sympathy the Buddha taught for bonding with and winning over others.

The ten pāramīs—from generosity and virtue to wisdom and equanimity—are the noble qualities we perfect, step by step, on the long path.

Is the “table” real? Is the “self” real? Telling conventional truth from ultimate truth dissolves many seeming contradictions in the Buddha’s teaching.

Not only physical food feeds us: the Buddha named four nutriments that sustain existence — and invites us to ask what we are feeding the mind with.

The Middle Way, found by the Buddha through his own experience, avoids both sensual indulgence and self-mortification — and it is the Noble Eightfold Path.

The Buddha’s first and most essential teaching, set out like a doctor’s diagnosis: suffering, its cause, its cessation, and the path that leads there.

Merit (puñña) creates favorable conditions; wisdom (paññā) leads to liberation. A practitioner needs both, like a bird needs two wings to fly.

Stream-entry, once-returning, non-returning and arahantship: the four noble fruits that map the path from ordinary person to full liberation.

The ten fetters are subtle defilements that bind beings to saṃsāra; cutting them one by one marks the four stages of awakening.

Greed, hatred and delusion—the three poisons—are the roots of all affliction. Understanding them shows how suffering is made and where to transform it.