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• Birth and Death, by Shen Hui

  By Buddhism Now on 26 October 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  However hard I practise seeing my true nature, I am always brought back into birth and death. What method must be practised in order to obtain the birthless and the deathless?

• Part 1 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura

  By Buddhism Now on 22 October 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  When we practise for certain lengths of time we find that our motivation itself is influenced by poison. Then we often have doubts about our practice and whether or not it works to lessen the suffering caused by the three poisons. Sometimes we might even quit because we feel it doesn’t work…

• The Last Buddhas of Bamiyan by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 14 October 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  They settled at the crossroads of the ancient eastern world, and from there commanded the silk road between India, China, and the great entrepôt of Balkh, from which the caravans journeyed to Rome and the west…

• The Record of Tung-Shan

  By Buddhism Now on 6 October 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Earnestly avoid seeking without, lest it recede far from you.
  Today I am walking alone, yet everywhere I meet him.
  He is now no other than myself, but I am not now him.
  It must be understood in this way in order to merge with Suchness.
  Tung-Shan

• Prajnaparamita Bodhisattva

  By Buddhism Now on 2 October 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  The Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) texts, are said to be closest Buddhists got to putting truth (impossible task) into words.

• A Good Dose of Dhamma: For meditators when they are ill, by Upasika Kee Nanayon.

  By Buddhism Now on 27 September 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  You can’t prevent pleasure and pain, you can’t keep the mind from labelling things and forming thoughts, but you can put these things to a new use. If the mind labels a pain, saying, `I hurt,’ you have to read the label carefully, contemplating it until you see that it’s wrong. If the label were right, it would have to say that the pain isn’t me, it’s empty. Or if there’s a thought that `I’m in pain,’ this type of thinking is also wrong. You have to take a new approach to your thinking, to see that thinking is inconstant, stressful, and not yours…

• In the moment of mindfulness, there is no suffering, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 18 September 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  In the moment of mindfulness, there is no suffering. I can’t find any suffering in mindfulness; it’s impossible; there’s absolutely none. But when there’s heedlessness, there is a lot of suffering in my mind…

• Form is Void by Shen Hui

  By Buddhism Now on 13 September 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  Form exists because the mind pro­duces it; void exists because of that which cannot be perceived. It is also said…

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