LightNews — News, ranked by scholars

Seven Steps of Breath Meditation - Buddhistdoor Global

April 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM

anarchobuddhist

@buddhistdruid.bsky.social

#pagansky #theravada #witchsky #brujasky #zen #secularmindfulness #booksky #buddhiststudies #magick 📚💙 #shamanism #thaibuddhism #thaifolkreligion #folkreligion

February 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

BDG feature: Seven Steps of Breath Meditation

Read here: tinyurl.com/wbr5bvrd

#buddhism #buddhistpractice #theravada #thailand #thaibuddhism #thaiforesttradition #meditation #breathmeditation

Prof. David Dale Holmes examines one of many methods expounded by the great Thai Buddhist master Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo.

tinyurl.com

December 9, 2024 at 8:51 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Jayasāro

🔗 Explore more: buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada #ThaiBuddhism #ThaiForestTradition #Thailand #UK #SpiritualGrowth #Giving #Spirituality

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today:

Give kind actions
Give kind speech
Give kind thoughts
Give your time
Give your knowledge
Give comfort
Give encouragement
Give feedback
Give respect
Give forgiveness
Give your truth,
humbly. — Ajahn Jayasāro

🔗 Explore more: buddhistdoor.net

March 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

🔗 Explore more: youtube.com/shorts/PykgF...

#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada #ThaiBuddhism #ThaiForestTradition #Thailand #SanDiego #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #happiness #Spirituality

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Jayasāro

April 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Jayasāro

🔗 Explore more: youtube.com/shorts/l4GPu...

#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada #ThaiBuddhism #ThaiForestTradition #Thailand #UK #SpiritualGrowth #Giving #Spirituality

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Suchart Abhijato

March 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Suchart Abhijato

🔗 Explore more at BDG: buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Theravada #ThaiBuddhism #Thailand #Dhamma #Compassion #Enlightenment #Liberation #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #Spirituality

Just think that on the day you die, these things [possessions] won’t mean anything to you. They wont be useful at all. But if you share them today, it will lift your spirit, your mind, and your heart higher … — Ajahn Suchart Abhijato

🔗 Explore more at BDG: https://buddhistdoor.net

June 19, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Pasanno

🔗 Explore more: buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada #Dhamma #ThaiBuddhism #ThaiForestTradition #Thailand #AjahnChah #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #Spirituality #LovingKindness

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today:

Loving-kindness can’t be separated from the Dhamma or anything else. Those qualities of letting go, non-contention: that’s where loving-kindness arises. When we let go of our moods, obsessions, worries, and fears—what’s left? Loving-kindness. — Ajahn Pasanno

🔗 Explore more: buddhistdoor.net

April 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Suchart Abhijato

🔗 Explore BDG on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/T-xgr...

#Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Theravada #ThaiBuddhism #Thailand #Dhamma #Compassion #Enlightenment #Liberation #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #Spirituality

Two Dead After Fire at New York City Buddhist Temple - Buddhistdoor Global

June 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

BDG news: Two Dead After Fire at New York City Buddhist Temple

Read here: tinyurl.com/mvhec997

#buddhism #theravada #nyc #usa #thaibuddhism #buddhisttemple #newyork

The blaze likely started due to a space heater used during recent cold conditions

tinyurl.com

February 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

🗣️ Grumpy Old Monks (A free, 64-minute talk from 2009)

Tags: #Modern #Buddhist #ThaiBuddhism

Grumpy Old Monks

A brief talk on the history of the Thai Forest Tradition, its origins and monks.

Vision of the Dhamma: A Collection of Buddhist Writings in English

February 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📖 A Collection of Buddhist Writings in English (A free, 138-page book from 2007)

Tags: #ThaiBuddhism #Modern

A collection of essays giving the orthodox, Thai position on a number of modern Dhamma questions.

> in a living tradition of Buddhism such as in Thailand, the members of that tradition themselves are often not quite aware of how the whole system is meant to work.

February 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

🗒️ Buddhism in Thailand (A free, 12-page essay from 1999)

Tags: #Buddhist #ThaiBuddhism

Buddhism in Thailand

A retelling of the wholesome, spiritual friendship between Kruba Srivichai and Luang Pu Mun: the Bodhisattva and the Arahant.

February 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

🔗 Explore more: buddhistdoor.net

#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada #ThaiBuddhism #ThaiForestTradition #Thailand #USA #SanDiego #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #happiness #Spirituality

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today:

The Buddha's Awakening challenged many of the presuppositions of Indian culture in his day; and even in so-called Buddhist countries, the true practice of the Buddha's teachings is always counter-cultural. It's a question of evaluating our normal concerns; conditioned by time, space, and the limitations of aging, illness, and death; against the possibility of a timeless, spaceless, limitless happiness. — Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

🔗 Explore more: buddhistdoor.net

April 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

🗒️ Spiritual Friendship (A free, 8-page essay from 2013)

Tags: #Buddhist #Friendship #Thirdeye #ThaiBuddhism #Bodhisattva

Spiritual Friendship

Buddhistdoor View: From Scandal to Reform, When Buddhism Reaches a Turning Point - Buddhistdoor Global

February 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)

@buddhistdoor.bsky.social

BDG View: From Scandal to Reform, When Buddhism Reaches a Turning Point

🔗 Read more at BDG: tinyurl.com/32zwvcpr

#Buddhism #Thailand #Theravada #Misconduct #Crime #BuddhistMonk #Trust #Vinaya #Ethics #Scandal #commentary #ThaiBuddhism

As Thai Buddhism reels from misconduct scandals, history offers perspective from Sri Lanka’s late 19th-century reform movement

tinyurl.com

July 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📰 The Kwan and its Ceremonies (A free, 46-page article from 1962)

Tags: #ASEAN #ThaiLanguage #ThaiBuddhism #Ritual

The Kwan and its Ceremonies

> The *khwan* may therefore be described as something in the nature of a principle of life, vital to the welfare of man and animals.

A Brief Introduction to Buddha-Dhamma

June 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

🗒️ A Brief Introduction to Buddha-Dhamma (A free, 8-page essay in translation from 2011)

Tags: #ThaiBuddhism #Meditation

> To practise Dhamma means to apply the Dhamma, to use the Dhamma in conducting your life and work.

Some Siamese Ghost-lore and Demonology

January 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📰 Some Siamese Ghost-lore and Demonology (A free, 15-page article from 1907)

Tags: #ThaiBuddhism #Ghosts

> Spirits, ghosts, fairies, demons, or speaking collectively, 'pi' (ผี) may be divided into three classes: 'Pi' which are the ghosts of the dead or living; 'pi' which exist on their own account, and do not originate from human beings; and thirdly 'pi' belonging to other worlds...

> No one visiting a Siamese monastery, popularly known as a 'wat', would fail to notice a certain structure, pyramidal in form with a slender tapering spire at the top...

June 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📰 Phra Čedi (พระเจดีย์) (A free, 7-page article from 1952)

Tags: #TBT #BuddhistArchitecture #ThaiBuddhism #Buddhist

Phra Čedi (พระเจดีย์)

A Guide to Awareness: Dhamma Talks on the Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipaññhàna Sutta)

July 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📕 Dhamma Talks on the Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipaññhàna Sutta) (A free, 55-page book translation from 1970)

Tags: #ThaiBuddhism #Vipassana

> Our cultivation of the mind is aimed both at firmly establishing calm and at developing the arising of true wisdom and insight. We depend on the practice as laid down by the Lord Buddha which I have been explaining in stages.

The Murals of Khrua In Khong: Enlightenment is Happening Everywhere

January 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📰 Enlightenment is Happening Everywhere (A free, 28-page article from 2022)

Tags: #ThaiBuddhism #Philosophy #Buddhastatue #Modern

> Even as Vajirayan criticized the supernaturalism of indigenous Siamese religious forms, certain ideas and practices were left intact. In particular was a focus on karma or merit and morality...

Sociokarma and Kindred Spirits: An Acknowledgement

May 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM

The Open Buddhist University

@buddhistuniversity.net

📰 An Acknowledgement (A free, 5-page article from 2023)

Tags: #ThaiBuddhism #Karma #Relationships

> With illustrations from the contemporary Thai religious landscape, we can observe how various forms of relational karma intuitively account for spirits and material objects as an agency of relations.