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• Breakthrough Sermon by Bodhidharma

  By Buddhism Now on 27 August 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort. Those who don’t understand the mind practise in vain. Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible…

• Buddhist Photographs of Japan in 1865

  By Buddhism Now on 24 August 2014 • ( 9 )

  

  Buddhist Photographs of Japan in 1865

• Law suit against reality, by Ken Jones

  By Buddhism Now on 22 August 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘This’ versus ‘that’ is, I believe, the starting point for an understanding of Dogen. The theme that runs through the essays in his great collection the Shobogenzo is the unmasking of this delusive dualism, and demonstrating the Great Way of opening to a sense of duality which is freed of the self-neediness which drives dualism…

• All The Keys, by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 16 August 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  As enlightenment is approached keys to the locked rooms become available. At first it may take a good deal of courage to use even the smallest of them. Because the room has been locked we do not know what is in it and the mere fact that it has been locked seems to imply that what is in it, is terrible…

• Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond

  By Buddhism Now on 8 August 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Many of the artefacts, prints and manuscripts in the exhibition have never been on public display before. Exhibits include some of the oldest illuminated Buddhist manuscripts from the first decades of the eleventh century as well as specimens of skilfully illuminated wooden covers; a quartet of scroll paintings brought back from the infamous Younghusband Expedition; and a gift from the 13th Dalai Lama…

• Pointers to the Ultimate, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 6 August 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  In any religion there is the exoteric side — the tradition and forms, scriptures, ceremonies and disciplines—and the esoteric, which is the essential nature of that. So, in much of what we call religion, the emphasis is really on the external form.

• The Saving Lie, No Lie, by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 30 July 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  It can be argued in his defence that from the highest point of view there was only the Buddha nature under the Buddha floor boards; there was no-one there. So from the highest point of view he was telling the truth and not lying.

• Maha Prajnaparamita Sutra – Tangut Manuscript

  By Buddhism Now on 25 July 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  The Buddha: Without mark is this perfection of wisdom. Just as the element of space and the element of air cannot be approached by the mark of the total reality of any dharma, just so the perfection of wisdom.
  The Questions of Suvikrantavikramin. Perfect Wisdom: The Short Prajnaparamita.

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