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• The Real Way by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 14 May 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  These loves, hates, frustrations etc, unpleasant as they seem, are the essential manure out of which the lotus of enlightenment grows and blossoms. And the bigger the clay, the bigger the Buddha, as the Zen men say, so the more and better the manure, the better for the flowering.

• Our culture doesn’t encourage too much contemplation on birth and death

  By Buddhism Now on 10 May 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  We see and know impermanence as a constant. And that is liberating. All the mental suffering about what is going to happen to us, about being this or that person who will eventually disappear, about becoming ‘nothing’, is dissipated and this moment becomes a vast timelessness. The Buddha called it ‘birthlessness’ and ‘deathlessness’, freedom from birth and death…

• There is no evil comparable to hatred, by Acharya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 7 May 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The causes of happiness rarely occur, whereas the causes for suffering are abundant. Yet without suffering, there is no renunciation. There­fore, mind, stay firm!

• Telephone Meditation, by Thich Nhat Hanh

  By Buddhism Now on 3 May 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  Telephone meditation is in the same spirit. Suddenly, you have a Bell Master from very far away. He or she invites the bell to ring for you. When you hear the telephone bell, just sit wherever you are and enjoy breathing in and out. The sound of the telephone is the bell of mindfulness. This is a very strong meditation.

• Our bodies are the great universal life

  By Buddhism Now on 30 April 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Put your body in order. It will follow naturally that the mind will improve. Mind—body—mind—body—mind . . . Mind and body will always be in harmony.

• Dalai Lama’s arrival in India in 1959

  By Buddhism Now on 25 April 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Short film (about 2 minutes) from Pathé newsreels on the The Dalai Lama’s arrival in India in 1959

• Practising Listening with Empathy, by Thich Nhat Hanh

  By Buddhism Now on 23 April 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  Each of us has an Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva inside waiting to grow. So, this is not exactly a prayer, but more a kind of mindfulness practice. You evoke the name of the Buddha in order to bring about your capacity for listening, because listening is healing, relieving the suffering of the other person…

• Silent Promise, by Beopjeong Sunim

  By Buddhism Now on 21 April 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  There’s probably nothing more beautiful in this world than people relying on and trusting one another…

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