Tag: Dharma

  • Tibetan Nuns Project

    I am a proud sponsor of The Tibetan Nuns Project. Om Ah Hung The Tibetan Nuns Project The Tibetan Nuns Project provides education and humanitarian aid to refugee nuns from Tibet and to nuns from the Himalayan regions of India. The support provides facilities and programs to educate, empower, and improve the status of ordained Tibetan women.…

  • Prostrations

    Why do we do Prostrations? 1. The Purification of Pride First of all, we should know why we do prostrations. We do not do them to endear ourselves to somebody else. We do not do them for the Buddha. Such concepts are completely wrong. The Buddha is not a god of this world. We bow…

  • 3 Poisons

    In his early teachings, the Buddha identified “three poisons,” or three negative qualities of the mind that cause most of our problems—and most of the problems in the world. The three poisons are: greed (raga, also translated as lust), hatred (dvesha, or anger), and delusion (moha, or ignorance). The three poisons are opposed by three…