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• Tathata or Suchness

  By Buddhism Now on 21 November 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  When I first came across this word ‘Suchness’ in Zen literature, I thought, ‘What the heck is Suchness?

• Million thanks to everyone _/\_

  By Buddhism Now on 17 November 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  We had our millionth view this morning. Million thanks to everyone _/\_

• Meditation In Daily Life — emotional states, by Bhante Bodhidhamma

  By Buddhism Now on 14 November 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  The moods, once so solid, now seem softer and there is a general uplift towards calmness, peace and joy…

• Brothers and sisters in suffering, old age, sickness and death, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 8 November 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  If the Buddha had started with the teaching that there is no suffering, none of us would have believed it: There certainly is! He certainly got that wrong! So he started with: There is suffering…

• Two Tibetan works on Chan from the Tenth-century

  By Buddhism Now on 31 October 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Later Tibetan accounts agree that the Chinese side lost, leading to expulsion of Chan (Zen) Buddhism from Tibet. However, evidence from Dunhuang, such as this manuscript, suggests that Chan’s influence in Tibet continued well into the tenth-century.

• Birth and Death, by Shen Hui

  By Buddhism Now on 26 October 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  However hard I practise seeing my true nature, I am always brought back into birth and death. What method must be practised in order to obtain the birthless and the deathless?

• Part 1 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura

  By Buddhism Now on 22 October 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  When we practise for certain lengths of time we find that our motivation itself is influenced by poison. Then we often have doubts about our practice and whether or not it works to lessen the suffering caused by the three poisons. Sometimes we might even quit because we feel it doesn’t work…

• The Last Buddhas of Bamiyan by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 14 October 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  They settled at the crossroads of the ancient eastern world, and from there commanded the silk road between India, China, and the great entrepôt of Balkh, from which the caravans journeyed to Rome and the west…

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