Your paying homage to the Buddha proceeds from certain conditions latent within your true original nature. These are deep impressions that you have received from the Buddha. And they were not received in vain. They are like sounds near a mountain that will be followed by their echo…
Martine Batchelor
The Way of Tea, by Popchong Sunim
Do not gulp the tea but sip it slowly allowing its fragrance to fill one’s mouth. There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind…
A merry Veggie Christmas and a happy New Year
OATMEAL BAKE ( Vegetarian Christmas dinner serves 4) 1 Onion – diced 10 Medium-sized mushrooms – sliced 3 Carrots – diced 75g Oatmeal 150g Tinned tomatoes – mashed 75g Tinned or fresh chestnuts (if dried soak overnight) 50g Ground cashew… Read More ›
Chant the Wind, by Kusan Sunim
I venture to suggest to this assembly: ‘Even in a dirty place the true nature of all beings is always pure.’ …
Kusan Sunim bio
Kusan Sunim, Korean Seon (Ch’an Zen) Buddhist master…
Self and Body Disappear, by Myoljin Sunim
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…
Martine Batchelor bio
Martine Batchelor was born in France in 1953…
June 1990 Buddhism Now
Buddhism Now archives. We are posting the covers of old paper versions of Buddhism Now including selected articles.