Author Archives
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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Old age and personality, by Ajahn Sumedho.
Ajahn Sumedho explores old age and personality from a meditive persective.
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Morning meditation — The path to awakening.
‘The path to awakening
Is impossible to map.
It is lofty but has no ‘above’;
Impossible to reach its limit.’Jingjue
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Morning Meditation — If you have genuine insight.
‘True understanding — if you have genuine insight, birth and death will not affect you, and you will be free to come and to go.’
Zen Master Rinzai
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Morning meditation — Offers a profound insight into the nature of existence.
‘The Buddha’s rejection of both annihilationism and nihilism offers a profound insight into the nature of existence — one that transcends the conventional ideas of life and death, being and non-being.’
Everyday Buddhism
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Morning meditation — Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School.
‘Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School and attach no importance to rituals, and whose mind functions always under right views, so that they are absolutely free from defilements or contaminations, are said to know their Essence of Mind.’
Hui Neng
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Morning meditation — But as a real refuge.
‘But as a real refuge to take in order to see and realise the truth, you can look at the Buddha as that which is mindful, the pure intelligent awareness.’
Ajahn Sumedho
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Morning meditation — The way of mindfulness is always appropriate.
‘The way of mindfulness is always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.’
Ajahn Sumedho
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Morning meditation — The moment has endless possibilities.
‘We are powerless to change the past, but the moment has endless possibilities.’
Zen Graffiti
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