LEARN - (Chapter 10) What is Merit? Merit is an important teaching to understand as it relates to the path to Enlightenment. Merit is thought of as a unique type of Kamma. A practitioner would be unable

LEARN - (Chapter 10) What is Merit? Merit is an important teaching to understand as it relates to the path to Enlightenment. Merit is thought of as a unique type of Kamma. A practitioner would be unable

LEARN - Buddhist Chanting (Chanting Instruction & Guidance) LEARN Buddhist Chanting to help ease the mind into meditation prior to starting a meditation session and to ease it out of meditation at

LEARN - (Chapter 9) - What is Kamma and How Does It Affect Me? All of Gotama Buddha’s teachings center on the importance of “not doing any harm”. By doing harm to other beings, we do harm to ourselves

LEARN - Loving-kindness Meditation - (Eliminating Anger!) Learn Loving-kindness Meditation to eliminate anger, frustration, irritation, and other discontent feelings associated with the poison of hatred

LEARN - (Chapter 8) - Transforming The Three Poisons: Greed, Hatred, and Delusion Gotama Buddha’s teachings to eliminate, greed, hatred, and delusion are known, for good reason, as The Three Poisons, The

Gotama Buddha explained that “a pot without a stand is easy to tip over”. The mind is the “pot” and your meditation practice is the “stand”. The mind needs a steady and consistent “stand” that you establish

LEARN - Meditation Guidance (Breathing Mindfulness Meditation) Gotama Buddha explained that “a pot without a stand is easy to tip over”. The mind is the “pot” and your meditation practice is the “stand”.

Teacher David, I was wondering in Volume 2, Chapter 8 (The Two-Eyed Person), why is there so much importance given to wealth acquiring/creation (one eye), instead of pure sustenance (making enough to live).

Teacher David, In Chapter 37 of Volume 3 in your books series, Gotoma Buddha explains how beings once had a lifespan of 80,000 years but that those beings lifespan will decrease to 10 years. He also correlates

Good day Teacher David, I would like some guidance. I have this opportunity to be an independent care giver, apart from an agency. There are some benefits to this position. Same client, consistent work

Hello Teacher David, I’m running into problems following the 8 Fold Path in the workplace. I used to be more assertive with everyone at my business. I did not follow Right Speech and I was not “teachings

And what is the nature of gender, why does it even exist? Does gender exist in the non physical realms? Seems like yes, as for example Mara is a non physical being. Or perhaps there is only male gender

Dear Teacher David, I hope you are doing well. Could you please help me with this question? To which fetter does the desire for non-existence belong? I see that fetters 6 and 7 are related to craving for

Dear Teacher David, Based on your teaching experience what are like the top 3 or 5 factors that hinder students’ progress? Thank you. Teacher David replies. Hello Hela…sure, I will help you. The Buddha

Dear Teacher David, Could you please help me with this question? I stopped listening to music for entertainment purposes some months ago, and I've realized that although I was quite attached to it in the

I have a question Teacher David. I sometimes enter into relationships that I would characterize as "less than positive." I do this as part of my work for AA. Often, when people first join AA

Greetings David, Surrendering our expectations of others does not mean that we cannot still actively aim to teach them, like our children, correct? We just have to dial into Right Speech, understanding

Teacher David, Is the Pali chanting close to the same sounds of the original Pali language? Or was the written Pali language later discovered after the language was lost, only to later assign sounds to

Sawasdee kha David. I recently offered some pineapple cookies to some Thai men while waiting for a bus. A few hours later, I was back at the same bus station and suddenly a random Thai man silently approached