If there is still an  ‘I’ (or ego) then there is no point in trying to deny it. What then, is the correct approach to empty the heart of ‘me’?

After pushing his body too far in the pursuit of insight, a young Master Bankei finds himself on the verge of death when something miraculous suddenly happens.

This Book Extract looks at the history of early Buddhism in China and it’s symbiotic development with Chinese spiritual traditions of the time.

In this extract from Trevor Leggett, we have a description of what the state of realisation feels like, and the next step that has to be taken afterwards.

Ven. Ajahn Sumedho explains how our relationship to everything we experience can produce (or not produce) an awakened mind.

Ven. Ajahn Sumedho teaches us how to become aware of the ‘no-thing’.

Venerable Ajhan Sumdeo on the difference between trying to be a ‘good’ person and being a ‘whole’ person.

Ven. Ajahn Sumedho recounts his experience as an 'arrogant', 'stubborn' and 'rebellious' foreigner, starting life as a monastic in very harsh conditions in the north of Thailand.

While meditating we can get so wrapped up in the mind that we forget the body. Meditation master Ajahn Amaro gives us a method for reintroducing the body back into the meditation.

Ajahn Sumedho reveals the secret to mindfulness of breath in this book extract.

Chugyum Trungpa examines how negative emotions lead the way to liberation, but also at what point this ‘negativity’ actually becomes a ‘negative’ influence in our lives.

Given that Buddhism is so concerned with self inquiry and self realisation, why is Buddhism also so devotional?