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• What is a hua t’ou? Master Hsu Yun

  By Buddhism Now on 22 December 2009 • ( 6 )

  

  In ancient times, the Patriarchs and Ancestors directly pointed at the mind for realisation of self-nature and attainment of Buddhahood. Like Bodhidharma who ‘quietened the mind’ and the Sixth Patriarch who only talked about ‘perception of self-nature’, all of them just advocated the outright cognizance (of it) without any more ado…

• A merry Veggie Christmas and a happy New Year

  By Buddhism Now on 16 December 2009 • ( 0 )

  OATMEAL BAKE ( Vegetarian Christmas dinner serves 4) 1 Onion – diced 10 Medium-sized mushrooms – sliced 3 Carrots – diced 75g Oatmeal 150g Tinned tomatoes – mashed 75g Tinned or fresh chestnuts (if dried soak over­night) 50g Ground cashew… Read More ›

• Buddha found his own way to freedom, by Diana St Ruth

  By Buddhism Now on 12 December 2009 • ( 10 )

  

  Buddhism has a very guru-and-teacher-oriented side to it, but I don’t think it was ever meant to. The Buddha found his own way to freedom from suffering…

• Dealing with obstacles, by Marcelle Hanselaar

  By Buddhism Now on 9 December 2009 • ( 23 )

  

  Dealing with obstacles by Marcelle Hanselaar

• Chant the Wind, by Kusan Sunim

  By Buddhism Now on 8 December 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  I venture to suggest to this assembly: ‘Even in a dirty place the true nature of all beings is always pure.’ …

• Kusan Sunim bio

  By Buddhism Now on 8 December 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Kusan Sunim, Korean Seon (Ch’an Zen) Buddhist master…

• Self and Body Disappear, by Myoljin Sunim

  By Buddhism Now on 4 December 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  After practising meditation for a while, we must enter the state of no-self. When the self is let go of, self and body disappear, and there is great brightness. If we sit and enter the state of no-self only, however, strength will not come…

• Martine Batchelor bio

  By Buddhism Now on 4 December 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Martine Batchelor was born in France in 1953…

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