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• Part 4 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura

  By Buddhism Now on 2 June 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  We often attach to that person. We might ask who the person is…

• The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

  By Buddhism Now on 21 May 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  With more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean…

• Is awareness lonely? Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 15 May 2015 • ( 1 )

  Extract from a talk given at the Buddhist Publishing Group 2002 Summer School. Around 3 minutes

• There is No Buddha-Dharma Outside the Mind, by Harada Sekkei Roshi

  By Buddhism Now on 10 May 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  If you say there is not enough, there is nothing lacking. This is the mind which neither increases nor decreases and which is completely free and unrestricted. To really study and investigate this mind is the Dharma vehicle of the ancient Buddhas; it is the gate to the Dharma…

• How could I be unhappy about others being pleased? Acarya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 2 May 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The Buddhas are delighted when sentient beings are happy and distressed when they are hurt. So by loving them I will please all Buddhas and by harming them I will injure the wise. For just as someone whose body is engulfed by fire finds no pleasure in desirable objects, it is impossible for the compassionate ones to be joyous when a sentient being is in pain…

• Everything comes from mind, by Bodhidharma

  By Buddhism Now on 24 April 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Your real body is pure and impervious. But because of delusions you’re unaware of it.

• Great Wisdom Sutra from the Chū sonji Temple Sutra Collection

  By Buddhism Now on 17 April 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This chapter from the Great Wisdom Sutra (Daihannyakyō; Sanskrit: Mahaprajnaparamita) is one of more than five thousand scrolls of Buddhist scripture.

• The Emotional Climate of Nondualistic Practice, by Ken Jones

  By Buddhism Now on 11 April 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  At home in our Buddha nature, but doubtless no less aware of our still persistent delusiveness, we open in ready compassion to the misfortunes and stupidities of others…

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