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Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine based upon the teachings of the Buddha.
Buddhist Publishing Group (BPG) was formed in 1983 and published the paper issue of Buddhism Now between 1989-2007.
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Morning meditation — You can start meditating right now.
‘You can start meditating right now.’
Everyday Buddhism
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Morning meditation — You can start meditating right now.
‘You can start meditating right now.’
Everyday Buddhism
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Morning meditation — The path does not end with the realisation of emptiness.
‘The path does not end with the realisation of emptiness, not-self. It continues as a journey of awakening in the present, in every breath.’
Everyday Buddhism
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Morning meditation — The Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us.
‘Learned Audience, the Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realise it ourselves.’
Hui Neng
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Morning meditation — Attachment operates as wanting something or wanting more.
‘Sometimes anger may give some kind of immediate support, some kind of strength and power, but in the long run it doesn’t. There’s always some fear behind it.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
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Morning meditation — When you are thinking of neither good nor evil.
‘I said, ‘‘When you are thinking of neither good nor evil, what is at that particular moment, Venerable Sir, your real nature (literally, original face)?’’’
Hui Neng
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Morning meditation — Where can the dust alight?
‘There is no Bodhi-tree,
Nor stand of a mirror bright.
Since all is void,
Where can the dust alight?
Hui Neng
[Enjoy the simple insight of this verse.]’Hui Neng
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Morning meditation — Awareness, not two.
‘Awareness, not two. The inner and the outer no longer feel divided. The sense of ‘me’ observing the world softens, or falls away. Thought still moves, but is not taken as real. Experience flows without clinging, without story, without ‘‘two’’.’
Everyday Buddhist
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