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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 — You’re no Different.

  By Buddhism Now on 3 October 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Followers of the way, you’re no different from Shakyamuni. [The Buddha]’

  Zen Master Rinzai

• Morning meditation: Ego Trip.

  By Buddhism Now on 2 October 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Followers of the way, if the Dharma were an ego trip, we’d all have been Buddhas long ago.’

  Zen Graffiti

• Morning meditation — The Paradox.

  By Buddhism Now on 1 October 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘ The paradox of nonattachment is that when we don’t own anything, we will gain the world..’

  Beopjeong Sunim

• Morning meditation — All I’m Talking About.

  By Buddhism Now on 30 September 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Followers of the way, all I’m talking about is medicine appropriate for curing specific ailments.’

  Zen Master Rinzai

• Morning meditation — For the First Time.

  By Buddhism Now on 29 September 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Here for the first time this struck my heart, and realising the nature of birth-and-death, I grasped the essence of the Buddha-dharma.’

  Ippen

• Emptiness the Womb of Compassion, by Robert Thurman

  By Buddhism Now on 28 September 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Compassion is the most realistic way of engaging with life realistically.

• Morning meditation — Sooner or Later.

  By Buddhism Now on 28 September 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Don’t trust yourselves to a companion who is only a phantom and a dream. Sooner or later it’ll return to impermanence.’

  Zen Master Rinzai

• Morning meditation — Emptiness.

  By Buddhism Now on 27 September 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Emptiness (Sunyatā) is a synonym for the insight of seeing not-self (anatta).’

  Everyday Buddhism