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Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine, giving advice on how to practise Buddhism.
Buddhist practice: Accepting the Moment ‘Now’, by Harada Sekkei Roshi. wp.me/pFy3u-3Zf There was nothing obtained and nothing was thrown away.
Accepting the Moment ‘Now’, by Harada Sekkei Roshi
When I forgot myself, it was exactly like that. There was nothing obtained and nothing was thrown away.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Buddhist practice: Accepting the Moment ‘Now’, by Harada Sekkei Roshi. wp.me/pFy3u-3Zf There was nothing obtained and nothing was thrown away.
No reason why we should not use Ariya instead of Noble in the 4 Truths.
Ariya refers to one who has directly seen reality as it is, or someone who has entered the path. See one of our previous posts.
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Ariya refers to one who has directly seen reality as it is, or someone who has entered the path. See one of our previous posts.
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Morning meditation — The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths.
‘The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths suggests that the Eightfold Path is more a way of liberation than merely a way to liberation, which makes sense.’ Every…
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December 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
No reason why we should not use Ariya instead of Noble in the 4 Truths.
Ariya refers to one who has directly seen reality as it is, or someone who has entered the path. See one of our previous posts.
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Ariya refers to one who has directly seen reality as it is, or someone who has entered the path. See one of our previous posts.
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How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-3hK.
How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho
That awareness, that light, is universal; it isn’t like my personal property. That’s why on an intuitive level we can resonate; many of you can intuitively understand what I’m saying.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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"Here is the essence of Buddhism clearly laid out and lucidly explained."
“These are some of the best teachings he gave.”
From a five 🌟 Buddhist review.
'Don't Take Your Life Personally’ by Ajahn Sumedho.
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“These are some of the best teachings he gave.”
From a five 🌟 Buddhist review.
'Don't Take Your Life Personally’ by Ajahn Sumedho.
Or a favourite bookshop ISBN 9780946672318
December 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Here is the essence of Buddhism clearly laid out and lucidly explained."
“These are some of the best teachings he gave.”
From a five 🌟 Buddhist review.
'Don't Take Your Life Personally’ by Ajahn Sumedho.
Or a favourite bookshop ISBN 9780946672318
“These are some of the best teachings he gave.”
From a five 🌟 Buddhist review.
'Don't Take Your Life Personally’ by Ajahn Sumedho.
Or a favourite bookshop ISBN 9780946672318
Buddhist practice: Buddhism a path of awareness. Diana St Ruth wp.me/pFy3u-1e2.
Buddhism a path of awareness. Diana St Ruth
You sometimes hear widely accepted teachings in Buddhism being argued about and all but dismissed, but Buddhism is for testing. Isn’t that the whole point? But you do hear these tussles going on…
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December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Buddhist practice: Buddhism a path of awareness. Diana St Ruth wp.me/pFy3u-1e2.
Buddhist insights: People think that the gift of the gab and being smart, are signs of wisdom, by Hakuin Zenji.
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People think that the gift of the gab and being smart, are signs of wisdom, by Hakuin Zenji
The Buddhist world is now filled with people of their sort.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Buddhist insights: People think that the gift of the gab and being smart, are signs of wisdom, by Hakuin Zenji.
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Morning meditation — The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self.
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Morning meditation — The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self.
‘The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self and meets us where we are, offering wisdom and compassion for all stages of the journey.’ Everyday Buddhism
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December 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self.
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Buddhist read: I am often without longing, without ill will.
'One’s Own Mind', a Buddhist Text
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'One’s Own Mind', a Buddhist Text
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One’s Own Mind
It is just as if a woman or a man, young, youthful, and fond of ornaments, would look at their own facial reflection in a clean bright mirror or in a bowl of clear water. If they see any dust or bl…
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December 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: I am often without longing, without ill will.
'One’s Own Mind', a Buddhist Text
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'One’s Own Mind', a Buddhist Text
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Buddhist practice: Buddhism a path of awareness. Diana St Ruth wp.me/pFy3u-1e2.
Buddhism a path of awareness. Diana St Ruth
You sometimes hear widely accepted teachings in Buddhism being argued about and all but dismissed, but Buddhism is for testing. Isn’t that the whole point? But you do hear these tussles going on…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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And what, monks, is ageing?
In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.
The Buddha
Goodnight everyone stay safe.
In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.
The Buddha
Goodnight everyone stay safe.
December 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And what, monks, is ageing?
In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.
The Buddha
Goodnight everyone stay safe.
In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.
The Buddha
Goodnight everyone stay safe.
🙏🙏🙏 for all of your support this week.
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
🙏🙏🙏 for all of your support this week.
When we can feel the pain of attachment in its naked form, we stop allowing it to rule our lives. Corrado Pensa wp.me/pFy3u-1kD.
The Pain of Attachment, by Corrado Pensa
We fall sometimes, in old habits; we slide back; we regress and start yelling or nourishing self-aversion, but if we keep practising, we wake up again and find that we don’t really want to co…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When we can feel the pain of attachment in its naked form, we stop allowing it to rule our lives. Corrado Pensa wp.me/pFy3u-1kD.
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Buddhist read: A bit of Buddhist History. Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha wp.me/pFy3u-2Ix.
Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha
After six years of hardship, working to find the right spiritual path and practising on his own to seek enlightenment, Prince Siddhartha reached his goal of enlightenment when he was thirty five…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Morning meditation — How can one cultivate a path to liberation.
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Morning meditation — How can one cultivate a path to liberation.
‘How can one cultivate a path to liberation when the idea of a ‘self’ progressing along such a path is, according to the Buddha, fundamentally delusional?’ Everyday Buddhism
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December 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — How can one cultivate a path to liberation.
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Buddhist read: Everyday Buddhism: 'The Eightfold Path'. wp.me/pFy3u-Oc.
The Eightfold Path
Whoever makes endeavour for the riddance of wrong purpose, for the attainment of right purpose, that is his right endeavour. Mindful, he gets rid of wrong purpose; mindful, entering on right purpos…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: Everyday Buddhism: 'The Eightfold Path'. wp.me/pFy3u-Oc.
Buddhist insights: Book Cover from a 10th or 11th century Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra. wp.me/pFy3u-4dr.
Book Cover from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Astasahasrika
This painted cover for a palm-leaf manuscript belongs to the Pala- Nepalese tradition. It comes from a palm-leaf edition of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra (“Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 V…
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December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Buddhist insights: Book Cover from a 10th or 11th century Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra. wp.me/pFy3u-4dr.
Morning meditation — The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths.
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Morning meditation — The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths.
‘The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths suggests that the Eightfold Path is more a way of liberation than merely a way to liberation, which makes sense.’ Everyday Buddhism
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December 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths.
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Buddhist read: A bit of Buddhist History. Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha wp.me/pFy3u-2Ix.
Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha
After six years of hardship, working to find the right spiritual path and practising on his own to seek enlightenment, Prince Siddhartha reached his goal of enlightenment when he was thirty five…
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December 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: A bit of Buddhist History. Burmese scenes from the Life of the Buddha wp.me/pFy3u-2Ix.
Buddhist practice: Developing an attitude towards meditation, by Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-1g3.
Developing an attitude towards meditation, by Ajahn Sumedho
The goal of Buddhist meditation is to see things as they are; it is a state of awakened attention. This is a very simple thing to do; it isn’t complicated or difficult or something that takes years…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.
Kusan Sunim
Goodnight everyone sleep tight.
Kusan Sunim
Goodnight everyone sleep tight.
December 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.
Kusan Sunim
Goodnight everyone sleep tight.
Kusan Sunim
Goodnight everyone sleep tight.
Southern Song Academy masters provided a bridge between tradition and the new Chan (Zen) Buddhism painting. wp.me/pFy3u-3PK Film 72min.
From Academy to Chan: Liang Kai
This last of the four Southern Song Academy masters is shown as providing a bridge between that tradition and the new kind of painting associated with Chan (Zen) Buddhism: why it was preserved almo…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Southern Song Academy masters provided a bridge between tradition and the new Chan (Zen) Buddhism painting. wp.me/pFy3u-3PK Film 72min.
Buddhist insights: The capacity to be alone is linked to self-discovery and self-realisation. 'Being Alone', by John Aske wp.me/pFy3u-32G.
Being Alone by John Aske
‘Other people may offer a solution to our problems, but it is usually a solution to their problems, to something a bit different, and if it helps us, it is usually by luck.’
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December 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Buddhist insights: The capacity to be alone is linked to self-discovery and self-realisation. 'Being Alone', by John Aske wp.me/pFy3u-32G.
Morning meditation — Asked why he wore such a large hat.
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Morning meditation — Asked why he wore such a large hat.
Asked why he wore such a large hat, Zen master Huang Po replied, ‘because it has to cover the myriad worlds.’ Huang Po
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December 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — Asked why he wore such a large hat.
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Buddhist read: Buddhism, traditionally, has always been hard to take; it is not light weight. Western Cultural Accretions. wp.me/pFy3u-Xw Diana St Ruth
Western Cultural Accretions, by Diana St Ruth
There is a certain unease among traditionally trained Buddhists which is that some of that which goes under the heading of ‘Buddhism’ in the West is questionable regarding its authenticity……
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December 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: Buddhism, traditionally, has always been hard to take; it is not light weight. Western Cultural Accretions. wp.me/pFy3u-Xw Diana St Ruth
Buddhist practice: How do we know that rebirth is possible? 'Rebirth', by Tulku Thondup wp.me/pFy3u-4B0.
Rebirth, by Tulku Thondup
Many people have a hard time believing that there will be any rebirth when the present life is over. How do we know that rebirth is possible?
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December 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Buddhist practice: How do we know that rebirth is possible? 'Rebirth', by Tulku Thondup wp.me/pFy3u-4B0.