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• Morning meditation — When you dream at night you see all sorts of different things.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘When you dream at night you see all sorts of different things. Are those things seen with the eyes? You believe you have eyes in the dream, don’t you? You walk around and look all over, yet in reality your eyes are closed and you’re in bed.’

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

• Morning meditation — Just because one believes one has eyes.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Just because one believes one has eyes and can therefore see does not change the fact that what one is experiencing is basically mind experience.’

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

• Morning meditation — We can experience pain, joy, love, and loss, but these experiences are no longer seen as happening to a self.

  By Buddhism Now on 13 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘We can experience pain, joy, love, and loss, but these experiences are no longer seen as happening to a self. They are simply the play of phenomena arising and dissolving in awareness.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — In realising clear awareness, we are not attaining something new or extraordinary.

  By Buddhism Now on 12 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘In realising clear awareness, we are not attaining something new or extraordinary. Rather, we are returning to our natural state — a state in which the illusion of self has been seen through, and the world is experienced as it truly is.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The boundaries between self and the world blur.

  By Buddhism Now on 11 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The boundaries between self and the world blur, and we come to realise that the world is not something outside of us, but is, in fact, an inseparable aspect of our experience.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — The duality between self and no-self, self and other dissolves.

  By Buddhism Now on 10 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The duality between self and no-self, self and other dissolves, not in the sense that the world vanishes, but in the sense that our identification with a fixed self vanishes.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — It is important to note that clear awareness.

  By Buddhism Now on 9 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘It is important to note that clear awareness is not a rejection of the relative world in which we live. The insight into emptiness and not-self does not negate the reality of our everyday experiences.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Disciplinary and Other Rituals in Dunhuang Buddhism: A Review.

  By Buddhism Now on 8 September 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  What particularly delighted me was discovering that the book’s opening sections — the Preface, Introduction and introductory chapters — alongside the stunning colour photographs of original Dunhuang manuscripts.

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