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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.

• Buddhist Insight from Mahasi Meditation Tradition, by Bhante Bodhidhamma

  By Buddhism Now on 27 May 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Bhante Bodhidhamma’s talk begins with a short meditation then goes on to explore the nature of self as experience.

• Wrinkles, The Universe and All That, by Linda Clark

  By Buddhism Now on 24 May 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  I never really thought about the ageing process until I was twenty-five and my new employers, the South-Eastern Electricity Board, sent me to London on an induction course. I was a very timid soul in those days and it was… Read More ›

• Tea with the last Emperor, by Patty Elwood

  By Buddhism Now on 21 May 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Bronzes were arranged along the stairway, one of them being the Buddha-rupa which I have now.

• Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness

  By Buddhism Now on 19 May 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Buddhist art: Some Buddha images.

• Cherishing Others, by Dalai Lama

  By Buddhism Now on 16 May 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Equalizing oneself and others means developing the attitude and understanding that: ‘Just as I desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering, so do all living beings, beings as infinite as space; they also desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.’

• The Real Way by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 14 May 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  These loves, hates, frustrations etc, unpleasant as they seem, are the essential manure out of which the lotus of enlightenment grows and blossoms. And the bigger the clay, the bigger the Buddha, as the Zen men say, so the more and better the manure, the better for the flowering.

• Our culture doesn’t encourage too much contemplation on birth and death

  By Buddhism Now on 10 May 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  We see and know impermanence as a constant. And that is liberating. All the mental suffering about what is going to happen to us, about being this or that person who will eventually disappear, about becoming ‘nothing’, is dissipated and this moment becomes a vast timelessness. The Buddha called it ‘birthlessness’ and ‘deathlessness’, freedom from birth and death…

• There is no evil comparable to hatred, by Acharya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 7 May 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The causes of happiness rarely occur, whereas the causes for suffering are abundant. Yet without suffering, there is no renunciation. There­fore, mind, stay firm!