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• 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…

• Trust in your awareness, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 8 March 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘This is the awareness ― listening ― relaxed attention.’ Then you will feel the connection. It is a natural state that sustains itself. It isn’t up to you to create it. It isn’t dependent on conditions to support it. It is here and now whatever is happening…

• Listening, by John Aske.

  By Buddhism Now on 26 February 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Listening is much less connected with organising or pushing things round in our minds, and in fact listening and the listened-to are much more linked than actor and acted-upon. Listening also tends to be more emotionally neutral.

  The modern world seems driven to extinguish ­silence, as if it were a threat…

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