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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 — Only those who think.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Only those who think that they will live forever don’t settle their quarrels.

  The Dhammapada

• Morning meditation: The True Person Is.

  By Buddhism Now on 16 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The true person is not anyone in particular.’

  Dôgen Zenji

• Morning meditation — To see the Absence of Thought.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘To see the absence of thought is to master all the dharmas. To see the absence of thought is to embrace all the dharmas.’

  Shen Hui

• Morning meditation — Wrapped up in Ten Million Needless Distractions.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Wrapped up in ten million needless distractions, I’ve mostly slept in the bed of terminal ignorance. Taking the result as the path’

  Taking the Result as the Path: Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdre Tradition

• Morning meditation — The Confused Pronounce.

  By Buddhism Now on 13 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The confused pronounce [Prajna] with their mouths; the wise live it in their minds.’

  Hui Neng

• Morning meditation — Empty Awareness Free From.

  By Buddhism Now on 12 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration that pervades all samsara and nirvana.’

  Sera Khandro

• Morning meditation — If You Become Attached To.

  By Buddhism Now on 11 April 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  ‘If you become attached to the desire for illumination, then it will become a source of delusion.’

  Bankei

• Morning meditation: May all Those.

  By Buddhism Now on 10 April 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘May all those drowning in delusion reach the further shore.’

  Everyday Buddhist