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• Emotional Habits, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 7 February 2013 • ( 4 )

  We talk about the doors to the deathless, but it’s not something out there, something remote or hidden. The Buddha pointed to this mindfulness—this is the path to the deathless…

• Universal Original Purity, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 31 January 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  The purity of the moment is in this pure state of awareness. Therefore, you can always refer to it, remember it, just by the simple act of attention, this wide, embracing attention, intuitive awareness in the present. That’s the gate to the deathless, transcendent reality, the unconditioned. It’s not an achievement; you don’t achieve it; you just remember it

• Clinging to Self, by Bhikkhu PA Payutto

  By Buddhism Now on 26 January 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  A fun short story. The moral of this story is: if you want to say ‘there is no one who creates karma,’ you must first learn how to stop saying ‘Ouch!’

• The Middle Way, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 22 January 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  When the instincts are out of control, they become selfish, and this gives rise to all the defilements. The out-of-control instincts pull the mind off the Middle Way into the dead-end of the kilesa (the mental defilements). This is very important to know…

• The Development of Loving-kindness

  By Buddhism Now on 18 January 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Just as the radiance of all the stars does not equal a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance, but the moon’s radiance surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant, even so, whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the mind-release of loving-kindness…

• Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry

  By Buddhism Now on 14 January 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Occasional book review, ‘The Handbook of Iconometry’

• Five Spiritual Powers, by Mahesi Caplan

  By Buddhism Now on 11 January 2013 • ( 0 )

  Short film (18mins) on Awakening: The Five Spiritual Powers (Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Serenity, and Wisdom), by Mahesi Caplan.

• Direct Knowing, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 5 January 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Now the Buddha was a sage who tried to convey a particular teaching that would encourage the realization of ultimate reality. And the teaching of the Buddha sometimes baffles modern humanity because it does seem somewhat strange to our way of thinking; we are used to regarding religion from the point of view of being told something. A sage, or philosopher, or some prophet tells us something, and we either agree with it or not…

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