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.
-
Morning meditation — Please consider this.
‘Please consider this: right now, you have a body, a voice and a mind, don’t you? Of these, mind is the most important.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
-
Morning meditation — The easiest and most harmful place for practitioners to find themselves in is the discursive mind.
‘The easiest and most harmful place for practitioners to find themselves in is the discursive mind — discrimination, analysing, categorising this and that, good and bad, here and now.’
Jisu Sunim
-
Morning meditation — A teaching stripped of depth may become a mere fashion.
‘A teaching stripped of depth may become a mere fashion, a temporary adornment rather than a transformative force. While these applications are not without merit, they fall short of the practice’s true purpose: liberation from Dukkha.’
Everyday Buddhism
-
Morning meditation — It mostly requires a deliberate effort to identify oneself.
‘It mostly requires a deliberate effort to identify oneself with the joys and successes of others.’
Nyanaponika Thera
-
Morning meditation — Finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
‘Finding joy in the happiness and success of others, has not received sufficient attention either in expositions of Buddhist ethics, or in the meditative development.’
Nyanaponika Thera
-
Morning Meditaton — Do not seek for anything in written words.
‘Followers of the Way, do not seek for anything in written words. You will tire your heart and inhale icy air without profit.’
Zen Master Rinzai
-
Morning Meditation — The deep source of realisation comes with constancy.
‘The deep source of realisation comes with constancy.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
-
Morning meditation — Although dukkha is often translated as suffering.
‘Although dukkha is often translated as suffering, at its deepest level it refers to the discontent of ignorance — of not being Awake.’
Everyday Buddhism
Buddhism now 