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• Emptiness True Health, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 30 May 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  The medicine which cures the disease is the knowledge and practice that gives birth to emptiness. When emptiness has appeared it will be the cure of the disease and alter recovery from the disease there will be nothing save emptiness, the state void of Dukkha and. void of the mental defilements that are the cause of Dukkha

• The Qingzhou Discoveries

  By Buddhism Now on 20 May 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  In 1996 around 400 Chinese stone sculptures of the Buddha were discovered in Qingzhou, China…

• Field of Boundless Emptiness, by Zen Master Hongzhi

  By Buddhism Now on 10 May 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The subtlety of seeing and hearing transcends mere colours and sounds. The whole affair functions without leaving traces, and mirrors without obscurations…

• The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin

  By Buddhism Now on 1 May 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Short film about 5 minutes. Hakuin’s self-taught, spontaneous, yet masterly and inspired painting and calligraphy, just like his teachings and writings, expressed the mind and heart of Zen for monks and lay followers alike.

• Body and Mind Are One by Thich Nhat Hanh

  By Buddhism Now on 23 April 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Body and Mind Are One, short film (about 8 minutes) by Thich Nhat Hanh

• The Precepts aren’t Hard, by Ajahn Chah

  By Buddhism Now on 12 April 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  If there’s someone to sweep them and look after them, they’re beautiful. They’re not dirty — because there’s someone to look after them. It’s because there’s someone looking after them that they can be beautiful…

• Many Spikes, by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 3 April 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  One comes to see that the real agony would be to lie not on dozens of spikes, but on just one big spike!

• Ten Verses on Oxherding, Zen master Guoan Shiyuan

  By Buddhism Now on 26 March 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  In Zen, a herdboy’s search for his lost oxen has served as a parable for a practitioner’s pursuit of enlightenment since this Buddhist sect’s early history in China. In the eleventh century, the Song-dynasty Zen master Guoan Shiyuan (active ca. 1150) codified the parable into ten verses (gāthā), recorded and illustrated in this handscroll…

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