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  • The Pain of Attachment, by Corrado Pensa

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    Wall Art, Sri lanka © Hazel Waghorn

    We fall sometimes, in old habits; we slide back; we regress and start yelling or nourishing self-aversion, but if we keep practising, we wake up again and find that we don’t really want to continue with those old habits. It’s an organic process…

  • Greetings from Buddhism Now

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    Season’s greetings from all at Buddhism Now and Buddhist Publishing Group

  • Being Our Own Refuge, by Geshe Tashi Tsering

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    Two monks © Lisa Daix

    Sometimes we may feel that we do things without any kind of conscious intention. But if we are truly mindful, we can notice ourselves as we act; and if we trace the motivation back, we will definitely see that we have an instinctive wish to enhance our happiness…

  • Satipatthana Sutta

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    There is this one way for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrows and griefs, for the going down of sufferings and miseries, for winning the right path, for realizing nibbana, that is to say, the four applications of mindfulness. The Buddha

  • Baby English—sorry! by Tangen Harada Roshi.

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    Tangen Harada Roshi

    The English isn’t exactly right, but we know what he means. It is with great respect that we publish his Baby English Teisho here. If it is read with this in mind, we’re sure you will agree, it is a magnificent dharma thrust.

    Deep, deep, deep, great smile; That’s the roots. Why?

    Eternal, perfect and bright; Eternal, perfect safety; Eternal, perfect peace; Everything eternal,

    Now, here, now, here; Now, here—no change!

    All people hope, desire, Desire, desire,

    Desire perfect peace; Perfect enough, myself; Always, yes!

  • Right Speech, by Ajahn Sumedho

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    Flock of Sheep

    ‘I’m going to vow not to talk badly about anybody! I’m not going to gossip any more. If I speak it will just be on the dhamma! I’m not going to talk about worldly things like politics and football or anything like that.’ Then you have tea with…

  • Dharma Talks by the Inanimate, by Ven SongChol

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    Plant Dartington Gardens 2012

    Everything throughout the universes always speaks the Dharma.

  • Right Livelihood, by Diana St Ruth

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    Guanyin Sideview from the V&A London

    So what differentiates a Right Livelihood business from any other? It has to be the dharma element, a basic code of practice within oneself. It isn’t a question of just saying, ‘Oh, we’re a Buddhist publisher so we’re a Right Livelihood business!’