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• Nirvana for Everyone, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 28 October 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  When you hear the phrase ‘Nirvana for everyone’, you may shake your head in disbelief. People in general believe that nirvana is a special place where there is no suffering, only happiness, the place usually being reached after death by those who have already achieved perfection in thousands of incarnations…

• Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 28 October 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (Servant of the Buddha) became a monk in 1926…

• The unborn does not come within the realm of time

  By Buddhism Now on 26 October 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Questions such as: Why was I born? What is my life for? What will happen to me when I die? are based on the premise of a solid, permanent entity living in a body and moving through time from day…

• Diana St Ruth

  By Buddhism Now on 26 October 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Diana St Ruth has been a practising Buddhist since the early 1960s. A director of the Buddhist Publishing Group since 1983, she lived in a Buddhist Community in Devon from 1989-1993 and is the editor of Buddhism Now. She is… Read More ›

• Meeting with Father Bede Griffiths, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 22 October 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘I had a stroke and I lost my memory . . . thank goodness!’ He looked overjoyed!

• Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 21 October 2009 • ( 5 )

  

  Ajahn Sumedho was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand in 1967…

• Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 21 October 2009 • ( 4 )

  

  Trevor Leggett (1914-2000) lived for a considerable time in Japan. He was the first foreigner to obtain the Sixth Dan (senior teachers degree) in judo from Kodokan and has written several well-known books on the subject. He has also written… Read More ›

• Buddhism as music — Vedanta as architecture.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 October 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Buddhism can be looked at in terms of music, whereas the Vedanta of the Upanishads could correspond to architecture. As an example, take the familiar opening chords in Rachmaninov’s popu­lar Second Piano Concerto.

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