Quotes About Joseph Goldstein

Is enlightenment gradual or is it sudden? Whole schools of Buddhism have grown up around this issue. But it has always seemed to me that liberation is both sudden and gradual, that there is no polarity between the two.

Merit" is the usual translation of the Pali word punna, which more literally means "virtue" or that which purifies and cleanses the life stream, bringing good results.

The last of the ten unwholesome actions is wrong view, basic misperceptions that become the cause of difficulty and suffering in our lives.