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• 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…

• Suffering Ends, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 18 April 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  And this is a most important part of meditation practice, to really know when there is no suffering…

• Solely from the Mind, by Kusan Sunim

  By Buddhism Now on 15 April 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  If someone practises in this way, then whether walking, standing, sitting, lying, talking or not talking, in the midst of activity or nonactivity, the hwadu (Koan) will be always vivid…

• Awareness — Always delight in silence, by Acharya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 10 April 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Never forsake, even at the cost of one’s life, those spiritual friends who understand the meaning of the great way and personify the bodhisattva’s practice…

• John Snelling

  By Buddhism Now on 6 April 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Everyone who knew John Snelling through his Buddhist connections soon learned that he had leukaemia. This disease, which was diagnosed in 1975, became his inseparable companion in dukkha.

• Awareness — If I manage to restrain my mind, by Acharya Shantideva

  By Buddhism Now on 5 April 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Troublesome beings are like space; it is impossible to destroy them all. But if angry thoughts alone are overcome, it is equivalent to conquering all one’s enemies…

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