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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.

• Don’t invite the future.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 November 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Don’t invite the future.

• Master Jinen relates the Life and Teachings of Dogen Zenji

  By Buddhism Now on 9 November 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Think of not Thinking. How? By leaving thinking as-it-is. Dogen Zenji

• The Lotus Transcendent

  By Buddhism Now on 2 November 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Free eBook: The Lotus Transcendent: highlights include exceptional Gandharan arts.

• Satipatthana sutta the Buddha’s Teaching on Mindfulness

  By Buddhism Now on 27 October 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  Satipatthana sutta setting out the Buddha’s teaching to overcome suffering.

• Fascination for our Mental Suffering. Corrado Pensa

  By Buddhism Now on 21 October 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  We hear and read that we should look insidePapanca is proliferationWe hear and read that we should look inside; nippapanca is a mind of a buddha. Now, a simple reflection can help, at least it did in my case.

• Seated Buddha Shakyamuni

  By Buddhism Now on 13 October 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Shakyamuni Buddha, the Right Hand in Abhaya Mudra, the Left Hand Holding a Jewel, Chinese, late 6th century.

• Dogen is again questioning: What is moving and not-moving? By Shohaku Okumura

  By Buddhism Now on 5 October 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  That is a problem in Buddhism — that ‘something’ that does not change even though our body and mind have been changing, what is it?

• The Host and Guest — From The Surangama Sutra

  By Buddhism Now on 28 September 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  By considering this example of the visitor, the one who comes and goes, and the innkeeper, the one who remains, I understood what the visitor signifies.