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Clarke Scott is a fully ordained Buddhist monk trained in the Tibetan tradition. A student of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Clarke has received personal instructions—direct one-to-one instructions—on Madhyamaka philosophy and meditation from His Holiness. Recently Clarke moved to Tasmania to pursue a Ph.D in Buddhist philosophy from the University of Tasmania.

Archive of Articles For New Readers

For those new readers below are links to articles you may have missing. I should add that some of those early articles were badly written and will no doubt have grammar issues. I apologise in advance for this.

Learn To Meditation

7 Tips to Improve Your Meditation

Set up a special place for your meditation. Either a quite room somewhere in your house, or if you are like me and your bedroom and living room are one and the same read the article…

The Joy of Meditation

Like it or not, most people experience unwanted problems. Be they big or small, they are problems nonetheless and they are unwanted! No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, today I hope nothing but problems come my way read the article…

Walking Through Walls

So we consciously relax away from our involvement in the worlds of the senses. The external world that dominates most of our waking experience read the article…

Tools For Meditation

Learning to meditate is a creative process of persistent enthusiastic effort in becoming familiar with functional minds such as the minds of compassion and the wisdom the knows emptiness read the article…

Think Like a Meditator, Be Like a Meditator

For those of us that aspire to meditate well, it can be easy to get caught in thoughts of how wonderful it would be to have flawless concentration read the article…

Why Cant I Meditate Properly?

Have you been in the position where although you have tried hard you just can’t seem to get your dharma practice working? You keep telling yourself that you should learn how to meditate or meditate each day for a week but, then life gets in the road! read the article…

What is Meditation?

Meditation is an integral part of a larger process of becoming healthy. It is both a diagnostic and therapeutic tool used in this endeavor. In the classical Buddhist context, the term meditation is used to translate the Sanskrit term bhävana and its Tibetan equivalent gom read the article…

Philosophy

Philosophy as Practice

In this essay I argue that studying philosophy is a form of dharma practice in and of itself. That there are real and tangible benefits in the practice of studying philosophy. Moreover, studying philosophy is vital, if one is seriously engaging the Buddhist path read the article…

Is Wisdom Really Necessary In Order To Generate Compassion?

What is the difference between ordinary compassion and great compassion? I don’t know what the definition of ordinary compassion is, but at a guess, it could perhaps be characterized as; the wish for someone to be free from a manifest pain read the article…

Tsongkhapa’s Illusory-like Persons

Persons, according to Tsong khapa are illusory-like. They are illusory-like because while existing truly in one sense, they are nonetheless thoroughly unreal. For superior beings this seemingly paradoxical statement is in fact a straightforward description of how persons exist in reality read the article…

Illumination of the Thought

Tsong khapa’s overall enterprise and in particular his insight into the illusory-like nature of persons and phenomena is about solving the problem of existential suffering read the article…

Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Path

Recently I’ve become interested in the Western philosophical notion of Cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is the concept of global citizenship, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single community, possibly based on a shared morality read the article…

Life, Meditation Advice and Tips

Sore Knees From Meditation?

I think almost everyone has felt the pain of meditators knee! It can be a terrible pain and also a big hindrance to your meditation. Mediators knee, like tennis elbow is a recurring injury that for many manifests during retreats read the article…

Scientist Studies Brain From the Inside Out.

In a truly inspirational video neuroanatomist Jill Taylor describes an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke read the article…

General Buddhist Articles

Beyond Appearances

Buddhism asserts that all beings have the fundamental wish for greater happiness and also a natural aspiration to avoid any suffering read the article…

Seeing Through Anger

Negative emotion, we all have them. So whether your a passive-aggressive who suppresses your anger or a rageaholic that let’s fly at the slightest provocation, anger can be one of the most devastating forces known to humans read the article…

What Is Buddhism Anyway?

Regardless of age or gender, all have the potential to become a Buddha. One could say that in essence the teachings of the Buddha show us, either directly or indirectly, how to replace dysfunctional states of mind with functional states of mind read the article…

The Meaning and Purpose Behind Buddhist Chanting and Prayer

Buddhism is not just a religion; it is a pragmatic description of life that details our very existence and shows us methods for eliminating the dissatisfactory nature of much of our everyday experiences read the article…

Prayers and Meditations For the Dying

Buddhism sees death as a natural part of life and something that is neither negative or bad read the article…

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a technique usually spoken of in terms of meditation. But it can be defined as: becoming intentionally aware of your thoughts and actions in the present moment without placing values, labels or categories on these mental phenomena read the article…

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