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• Morning meditation — And what, monks, is ageing?

  By Buddhism Now on 22 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’

  The Buddha

• Morning meditation — When we see through the illusion of self.

  By Buddhism Now on 21 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When we see through the illusion of self, we no longer act out of self-interest but from a place of genuine care for the well-being of others.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — Mind is empty, and while being empty, it still knows.

  By Buddhism Now on 20 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Mind is empty, and while being empty, it still knows or experiences. Space is empty and does not know anything. That is the difference between space and mind.’

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

• Morning meditation — A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.’

  Kusan Sunim

• Morning meditation — When insight arises.

  By Buddhism Now on 18 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When insight arises — deepen your practice.’

  Gampopa

• Morning meditation — The Eightfold Path has played such a central role in the evolution of the Buddha’s teaching.

  By Buddhism Now on 16 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Eightfold Path has played such a central role in the evolution of the Buddha’s teaching and suggests that it may have emerged organically from Shakyamuni Buddha’s own behaviour and life example.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self and meets us where we are, offering wisdom and compassion for all stages of the journey.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The point that the path offers a way to live in alignment with deeper truths suggests that the Eightfold Path is more a way of liberation than merely a way to liberation, which makes sense.’

  Everyday Buddhism

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