Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche passed away on the 13th of February at his hermitage Nagi Gompa on the southern slope of the Shivapuri mountain. He was born in eastern Tibet on the tenth day of the fourth Tibetan month in 1920…. Read More ›
Buddhism
Dalai Lama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi
Love this picture of Dalai Lama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, in the UK, on her birthday.
Bhante Bodhidhamma
In the late seventies I began to meditate in the Soto Zen tradition with my first Buddhist teacher, Vajira Bailey in Birmingham. In August 1979 I underwent Jukai and committed myself to Buddhism as a Zen Buddhist at Throssel Hole… Read More ›
The Burden of Selfishness, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Selfishness is a terrible burden for the entire world. You can see that all the problems, all the conflict, all the crises, are the result of selfishness. Many people come to Asia to get away from the constant sense of crisis that they meet with in the West. But they can’t escape it by coming to Asia. The same problems are here as well!
Dalai Lama: I never get angry
“If I develop anger, suffer myself. No help to our problem,” The Dalai Lama. Six Minute audio.
Fool the Devil, a story by Trevor Leggett
There are about forty thousand Chinese characters in the total Chinese language. Nobody, of course, can possibly know them all, but they exist. Of course, the Bodhisattvas in China know them all; and the Devil knows them all too! He’s been around, and he’s got these forty thousand off — or he thinks he has!
Zen Calligraphy, by Harada Shodo Roshi
Shodo Harada Roshi, the head of the Rinzai Zen monastery of Sogenji, Okayama, Japan, giving a demonstration of Zen Calligraphy. 7 mins.
Listening, by John Aske
Listening is much less connected with organising or pushing things round in our minds, and in fact listening and the listened-to are much more linked than actor and acted-upon. Listening also tends to be more emotionally neutral.
The modern world seems driven to extinguish silence, as if it were a threat…
Buddhism now 