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Buddhist Insights Buddhist Insights - Connecting people with monastics Buddhist Insights is a non-profit organization connecting people with monastics.

We offer meditation retreats, classes and workshops without a price-tag and run entirely on Dana - generosity.

Bhante Suddhaso and Ayya Soma are visiting Empty Cloud this weekend from Empty Cloud Italia ❤️🤍💚On Saturday join us for ...
10/23/2026

Bhante Suddhaso and Ayya Soma are visiting Empty Cloud this weekend from Empty Cloud Italia ❤️🤍💚On Saturday join us for Contemplation of Death noon-4pm and visit the monastery in the morning to say hello.

10/22/2026

These four subjects practitioners must not be over speculated.

10/21/2026

Sutta Study/Dhamma Teachings
Sutta Reference: https://suttacentral.net/an10.48
Join us for live Dhamma Teachings by going to the live tab at Empty Cloud Monastery. Dhamma Teachings are live Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00am and 7:30 pm and Friday at 8:00am.
Buddhist Insights is funded by the generosity of the lay followers. If you are able to give, it benefits the sangha by providing them with food, shelter, and medicine. Your support contributes to the monk’s ability to continue these offerings to lay followers. To make a donation: https://buddhistinsights.org/donate/
To learn more about Buddhist Insights: https://linktr.ee/buddhistinsights

10/16/2026

Q&A with Ayya Sobhana

10/15/2026

The Sutta explains eight factors which hinders the path of a practitioners by giving a simily of wood log wich was floating along the river Ganges.

By - Bhante Pesala

10/14/2026

Sutta Reference: https://suttacentral.net/sn22.56/en/sujato
Join us for live Dhamma Teachings by going to the live tab at Empty Cloud Monastery. Dhamma Teachings are live Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00am and 7:30 pm and Friday at 8:00am.
Buddhist Insights is funded by the generosity of the lay followers. If you are able to give, it benefits the sangha by providing them with food, shelter, and medicine. Your support contributes to the monk’s ability to continue these offerings to lay followers. To make a donation: https://buddhistinsights.org/donate/
To learn more about Buddhist Insights: https://linktr.ee/buddhistinsights

In my booklet “The Crime of Capital Punishment” I wrote: It is useless to hang the body, as the body is never responsibl...
10/09/2026

In my booklet “The Crime of Capital Punishment” I wrote: It is useless to hang the body, as the body is never responsible for any crime. Ignorance is the real murderer! So, we should hang the ignorance!!! How? By giving the criminals knowledge, Truth, The Buddha-Dhamma! Can anyone suggest a way for hanging the ignorance? Ignorance is the cause of all crime. Judges make the terrible mistake; instead of rooting out the cause of crime, they simply try to destroy that empty bodily frame to which Gandhi referred to the other day when so many youths attempted to assault him. You remember in the newspaper? It was published that he came out and told the boys: “O boys! What are you going to do? The only thing you can deprive me of is this empty carcass. If you like, take it, but you can never take me”.
That is the teaching of Buddhism. Therefore, the judges always hang the empty carcass, which is not the criminal at all. How can a poor criminal cultivate wisdom? By giving wisdom to the criminal. Only by giving to him, can he receive. We give wisdom to the criminal and we hang ignorance, once the ignorance is hanged, he will not kill. We won’t hang ignorance by hanging the poor neck which is quite innocent of any crime. I never saw a neck which has committed any crime. It is to hang the wrong thing. I can give you hundreds of illustrations to show you how the world is upside down, how human beings only do the wrong things. ✍️ Lokanatha Bhikkhu

10/09/2026

Monk Chat: Ask your Dhamma questions to the sangha LIVE. Join Monk Chat every Friday morning at 8:00am EST. Just go to Empty Cloud’s Youtube channel and click on the “Live” tab.

Buddhist Insights is funded by the generosity of the lay followers. If you are able to give, it benefits the sangha by providing them with food, shelter, and medicine. Your support contributes to the monk’s ability to offer these teachings. To make a donation: https://buddhistinsights.org/donate/
To learn more about Buddhist Insights: https://linktr.ee/buddhistinsights

10/07/2026

Sutta Reference: https://suttacentral.net/snp4.14
Join us for live Dhamma Teachings by going to the live tab at Empty Cloud Monastery. Dhamma Teachings are live Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00am and 7:30 pm and Friday at 8:00am.
Buddhist Insights is funded by the generosity of the lay followers. If you are able to give, it benefits the sangha by providing them with food, shelter, and medicine. Your support contributes to the monk’s ability to continue these offerings to lay followers. To make a donation: https://buddhistinsights.org/donate/
To learn more about Buddhist Insights: https://linktr.ee/buddhistinsights

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29 Ridgeway Avenue
West Orange, NJ
07052

Opening Hours

Wednesday 5pm - 6pm
Thursday 5pm - 6pm
Friday 5pm - 6pm
Saturday 5pm - 7:30pm
Sunday 8am - 6pm

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