The teaching of the Buddha is the basis of one of the world’s great enduring civilizations. It’s also the basis of many different religions. But that’s not all it is. Westerners are finding now the value of mindfulness taught by the Buddha in all kinds of situations in life.

But the Buddha’s teaching is very deep. The Buddha himself admitted: “My teaching is profound, hard to see, hard to understand.” Only someone

who experiences it for himself can really understand. And why is this? Because the Buddha’s teaching is the equivalent of modern science; but instead of exploring the external world, his teaching explores within.

Along with mindfulness, the Buddha emphasized skillfulness: that a skillful person can learn or teach himself anything, any skill. Western science has

developed the technology of dealing with the outside world to a high degree; but Buddha’s teaching develops the technology of the inner world to a degree beyond any other field of knowledge. This can only be experienced for oneself.

Skillful Living Network (an early name for Dharmasār, the Essence of Dharma) explores the Buddha’s teachings on skillfulness and how we can become expert at living.

Skillful Living Network is designed to help you acquire the greatest skill in life: the skill of skillfulness itself. All of our programs are either foundational knowledge or examples of that knowledge in practice.

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