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• 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!

• Dalai Lama: I never get angry

  By Buddhism Now on 15 May 2012 • ( 3 )

  “If I develop anger, suffer myself. No help to our problem,” The Dalai Lama. Six Minute audio.

• Fool the Devil, a story by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 1 May 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  There are about forty thousand Chinese characters in the total Chinese language. Nobody, of course, can possibly know them all, but they exist. Of course, the Bodhisattvas in China know them all; and the Devil knows them all too! He’s been around, and he’s got these forty thousand off — or he thinks he has!

• Zen Calligraphy, by Harada Shodo Roshi

  By Buddhism Now on 28 April 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Shodo Harada Roshi, the head of the Rinzai Zen monastery of Sogenji, Okayama, Japan, giving a demonstration of Zen Calligraphy. 7 mins.

• Four Noble Truths, talk by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 14 April 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Ajahn Sumedho gives a Dhamma talk on meditation, the Four Noble Truths and the impermanence of all conditioned phenomena… Short film 43mins

• We have a choice, by Corrado Pensa

  By Buddhism Now on 2 April 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Every difficult or unpleasant situation can be used as further training for our aversion, anger and hatred or as training in our dharma practise. Any pleasant situation can be used to further our training in attachment, fantasising and possessiveness or to kindle attention and exercise our capacity to open up and let go…

• Have your Dealings with Heaven, by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 26 March 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Don’t have your dealings with the clouds. Have your dealings with the sky. The clouds are the sky frowning, so to speak…

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