Reflections

Join Tahn Pamutto and friends for an online daylong retreat in the Upavana Zoom, Sunday, January 26.  The theme of the day will be ‘Fear’.   Relevant Suttas: MN 4 – Fear and Dread https://suttacentral.net/mn4/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=none&highlight=false&script=latin AN 4.184 – Some Don’t Fear Death https://suttacentral.net/an4.184/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=none&highlight=false&script=latin SN 55.14 – Fear of the Bad Place https://suttacentral.net/sn55.14/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=none&highlight=false&script=latin SN 55.21 – […]

Join Tahn Pamutto and friends for an online daylong retreat in the Upavana Zoom, Sunday, December 29.  The theme of the day will be Faith – how to establish and develop our confidence in the practice and the Triple Gem.  This faculty is important for directing our progress and keeping us from losing momentum.  When

How do we feel about our lives – where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are going? How do we feel about our health? Our finances? How do we feel about technology? Medicine? The people around us? The country? Society? The planet? What state is it all in? Where is it headed? If

Buddhist Death Practices (Transcript of https://upavana.org/buddhist-death-practices/, PDF here ) Tahn Pamutto, May 2024 Hello, everybody. Today, something a little different. Recently, I’ve been asked in a few different ways, various aspects about how Buddhists relate to death, what to do in preparation for death, should we want to know how to prepare ourselves, or what to