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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 — Occupied by the turmoil of many worthless activities.

  By Buddhism Now on 7 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Occupied by the turmoil of many worthless activities, I’ve been an idiot taking trivial things to be Dharma.’

  Taking the Result as the Path: Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdre Tradition

• Morning meditation — Buddhist ritual’s are for overcoming pride and egotism.

  By Buddhism Now on 6 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Buddhist ritual’s are for overcoming pride and egotism. But clinging to ritual is a hindrance to awakening.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning Meditation — l’ve come to solve the question of life and death.

  By Buddhism Now on 5 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘A monk once asked Zen master Egen “l’ve come to solve the question of life and death”.
  Egen drove him away saying, “at Egens place there is no such thing as life and death!”’

  Zen Comments on the Mumonkan.

• Morning meditation — Buddha as an experience transcends mere personality.

  By Buddhism Now on 4 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Buddha as an experience transcends mere personality; it invites us to embody his enlightened awareness, manifesting wisdom and compassion in our own lives.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — This is gossip. It stops at me.

  By Buddhism Now on 3 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘I hear it spoken, my mind does not arise — This is gossip. It stops at me.’

  Chan Master Fenyang

• Morning meditation — The precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.

  By Buddhism Now on 2 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Buddha taught that looking after the precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.’

  Ajahn Chah

• Morning meditation — The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers.

  By Buddhism Now on 1 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself.’

  The Buddha

• Morning meditation — Full of firewood, full of water.

  By Buddhism Now on 30 June 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘I hear it spoken, my mind does not arise — This is gossip. It stops at me.’

  Chan Master Fenyang