The study showed increased Delta Wave activity for mental religious chanting over resting control and non-religious chanting. The authors cite a previous study to show mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) showed increases in Alpha Wave and Theta Wave activity, but not Delta Wave.

The Daimoku as “Head’ and ‘Tail’ like a rope the Buddha lowers to us to climb out of delusion into full awakening.

Thich Nhat Hanh in response to Duc’s death addressed a letter to Rev. Martin Luther King entitled In Search of the Enemy of Man saying, “The importance is not to take one’s life, but to burn.”

Suffering is universal; things are not meant to go smoothly for us personally; the world is simply not built that way.

The Buddhist parable, “The Jewel hidden in the robe,” told in Chapter 8 of the Lotus Sutra, tells a tale of ignorance, spiritual poverty, and transformation.

What is a Sangha? Is there “a” Sangha, or “the” Sangha? Does it matter? Do I need one?

There isn’t a single exact definition of “Sangha.” It is clear from the canonical texts that Sangha meant different things at different times.

We do know, unequivocally that Sangha is one of the Three Treasures that all Buddhists take refuge in: Buddha. Dharma. Sangha.

Wishes are fantasies. Cravings are “unquenchable thirsts,” or tṛṣṇā (pronounced Ton-ha). Unquenchable thirst causes suffering, because we are never “satisfied.” These ideas of craving and unquenchable thirst are considered our “defilements.” Desire can be either wholesome (good), unwholesome (bad) or Nuetral (neither wholesome or unwholesome).

"For people who speak falsely,

Who transgress in this one way,

And who reject the world beyond,

There is no evil they won't do."