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• 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…

• Buddhism: What is So-Called Tathāgata Chan

  By Buddhism Now on 20 March 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Chinese Chan masters in the earlier periods did not possess a unified definition of Tathāgata Chan and Patriarchal Chan—instead, they wrote with rather ambiguous meanings and loose definitions…

• The Eye-opener, a short video of Nepalese sacred-art.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 March 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  A short video of a Nepalese sacred-art master and his journey of patience and time. (around 6 minutes)

• A moment of realisation, by Diana St Ruth

  By Buddhism Now on 5 March 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  A moment of realisation about the way we operate in the world can open doors in our mind for the light to come in and bring insight. It may cause us to cringe a bit when we reflect on how we’ve been in the past, a very uncomfortable feeling. On the other hand…

• Part 7 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura

  By Buddhism Now on 27 February 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Our practice is not so simple that when we sit in zazen, we automatically have fantastic experiences.

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