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• Tibetan “singing nun” arrives in exile after second period of imprisonment

  By Buddhism Now on 21 September 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The arrests of Palden Choedron and the other nuns occurred during a time of intense security in the Lhasa following a series of demonstrations in the Tibetan capital beginning in 1987. Martial law was imposed in Lhasa in…

• Mindfulness and Wisdom by Ajahn Sumedho.

  By Buddhism Now on 2 September 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  This word ‘satisampajanna’ (mindfulness and wisdom) has an embracing quality about it. It doesn’t refer to…

• Son master Chinul

  By Buddhism Now on 24 August 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Sentient beings deceive themselves through their own actions. They themselves per­ceive that “this is an ordinary man,” “this is a saint,” “this is oneself,” “this is someone else,”…

• Chan Buddhism of Bodhidharma by Shi Yanzi

  By Buddhism Now on 17 August 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  There were two principal methods of self-cultivation which Bodhidharma taught.

• Instruction, observation, and experience. by Trevor Leggett

  By Buddhism Now on 9 August 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  So we have these two extremes — blind faith without enquiry, and enquiry which is no real enquiry at all; it’s just an endless sort of doubt, and still lacks focus…

• Peaceful Awareness by D. T. Suzuki

  By Buddhism Now on 31 July 2010 • ( 3 )

  

  Reading this poem reminds me of Bodhidharma’s declaration to Eka: ‘On your behalf I have already bestowed on you peaceful awareness’ Without this special element in religion, shinjin or satori would not be possible.

• Burma’s Saffron Revolution

  By Buddhism Now on 23 July 2010 • ( 3 )

  I would like to talk to you about events in my country. The situation is so sad. I wish I knew the answer to stop all of this…

• Human life is extremely hard to find, by Geshe Sonam Rinchen

  By Buddhism Now on 15 July 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  A blind turtle lives on the ocean bed and surfaces just once every hundred years. A golden yoke floats on the vast ocean, blown here and there by the wind. What are the chances of the turtle surfacing at just the right time and in just the right place to be able to put its head through the yoke?

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