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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.

• Morning meditation — The ‘flower’ of dharma.

  By Buddhism Now on 2 July 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Having intuitively grasped the ‘flower’ of dharma we are bound to reap the fruit of awakening.’

  Hui Neng

• Morning meditation: It’s quite amusing and sad that most people.

  By Buddhism Now on 1 July 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘It’s quite amusing and sad that most people seem to wander through life in a little cloud, as if nothing were wrong.’

  Everyday Buddhist

• Morning meditation — Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant.

  By Buddhism Now on 30 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant consciousness conditioned by the circumstances in which one is enmeshed.’

  Kusan Sunim

• Morning meditation — The indissoluble union of voidness and compassion.

  By Buddhism Now on 29 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The indissoluble union of voidness (sunyara) and compassion (karuna) is called ‘mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta). Sekoddeśa’

  Tsongkhapa

• Morning Meditation — There’s an old Zen saying.

  By Buddhism Now on 28 June 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  There’s an old Zen saying; ‘Each time it’s presented, each time it’s new’.

  Zen Master Hakuin

• Morning meditation: To realise we are always in the present.

  By Buddhism Now on 27 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘To realise we are always in the present is the most wonderful thing.’

  Everyday Buddhist

• Morning meditation: If you still do not know your Original-face.

  By Buddhism Now on 26 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If you still do not know your Original-face after you’ve worn out your straw sandals, where are you going to search?’

  Chih Fei Tzu

• Afternoon meditation: Duality always lets us down.

  By Buddhism Now on 25 June 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Duality always lets us down.’

  Zen Graffiti