After practising meditation for a while, we must enter the state of no-self. When the self is let go of, self and body disappear, and there is great brightness. If we sit and enter the state of no-self only, however, strength will not come…
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Martine Batchelor bio
Martine Batchelor was born in France in 1953…
What is Dukkha? by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
What are the characteristics of dukkha? What are the symptoms?…
Sudden Illumination, by Zen master Hui Hai
Sudden Illumination means deliverance while still in this life. How shall I make you understand that?…
Vajrasattva Bodhisattva
Vajrasattva bodhisattva
Kumarajiva (AD 344-413) translated many Buddhist Scriptures into Chinese.
Kumarajiva (AD 344-413). His translations are still held in high regard by modern scholars and without him some of the great Mahayana texts may not have been preserved…
Pat Wilkinson one of the earliest Western Buddhist nuns
Pat Wilkinson went to Thailand to be a Buddhist nun (meichee) maybe fifty or sixty years ago…
Breaking free of mental activity, by Diana St Ruth
Buddhist meditation is the process of breaking free of mental activity in order to hear what we hear, smell what we smell, taste what we taste and see what we see, without making judgements…
Buddhism now 