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• Love, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 26 July 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  I can see that the moment of that is where there is no sense of selfish interest any more. That is probably the most beautiful, whole and complete experience that humans can have. And it is a mystical one. But then we have to deal with our emotional natures which are usually not developed or evolved.

• Two ways not to go, by Diana St Ruth

  By Buddhism Now on 13 July 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  The path, the way, reality, is open for us all to see and know for ourselves. It can be done and we can do it if we wish. That, to me, is what the message is, at least in most forms of Buddhism.

• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  By Buddhism Now on 1 July 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche passed away on the 13th of February at his hermitage Nagi Gompa on the southern slope of the Shivapuri mountain. He was born in eastern Tibet on the tenth day of the fourth Tibetan month in 1920…. Read More ›

• Is Your Hair On Fire? by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 30 June 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  It is quite amusing and quite sad that most people seem to wander through life in a little cloud, as if nothing were wrong. And then, when something is obviously wrong, they pretend it isn’t. People rarely develop the keen and powerful urge to be free of all the dukkha…

• Dalai Lama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi

  By Buddhism Now on 20 June 2012 • ( 3 )

  Love this picture of Dalai Lama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, in the UK, on her birthday.

• Words that live on, by Dalai Lama

  By Buddhism Now on 15 June 2012 • ( 4 )

  Words that live on, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Short film 30secs..

• Bhante Bodhidhamma

  By Buddhism Now on 11 June 2012 • ( 1 )

  In the late seventies I began to meditate in the Soto Zen tradition with my first Buddhist teacher, Vajira Bailey in Birmingham. In August 1979 I underwent Jukai and committed myself to Buddhism as a Zen Buddhist at Throssel Hole… Read More ›

• The Burden of Selfishness, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 26 May 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Selfishness is a terrible burden for the entire world. You can see that all the problems, all the conflict, all the crises, are the result of selfishness. Many people come to Asia to get away from the constant sense of crisis that they meet with in the West. But they can’t escape it by coming to Asia. The same problems are here as well!

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