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• This life Limitless. Tangen Harada Roshi

  By Buddhism Now on 10 February 2010 • ( 0 )

  This life Limitless, by Tangen Harada Roshi, Bukkoku-ji

• I took the snoring as my meditation subject, by John Aske

  By Buddhism Now on 3 February 2010 • ( 10 )

  

  There can be few sounds more maddening than snoring — someone else’s snoring I mean…

• Notes on Buddhist meditation

  By Buddhism Now on 25 January 2010 • ( 15 )

  

  Buddhist Meditation is not normally thought of as a process of attainment or failure. Learning about ourselves is its practice and awareness is its function…

• Fear and Suffering, by Corrado Pensa

  By Buddhism Now on 20 January 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  We fear the unknown, that is to say, we fear the unknown consequences. 
Sometimes, however, there is this contradiction: we ask about practising with fear while being afraid of practising with fear…

• Arthur Braverman

  By Buddhism Now on 16 January 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Arthur Braverman was born in 1942 in NY. After living in Nigeria for two years through Peace Corps he went to Japan to study Zen Buddhism.

• Loving kindness and equanimity, by Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 14 January 2010 • ( 6 )

  

  But metta is much deeper than just nice ideas and good thoughts, isn’t it? It is a way of receiving everything and allowing things to be what they are, both internally and externally…

• No Beginning, no End, by Dalai Lama

  By Buddhism Now on 11 January 2010 • ( 13 )

  

  If we were to maintain that there must be a beginning at some point somewhere to consciousness, a big question mark would arise for us — how did that first moment of consciousness come about? …

• Samatha and Vipassana

  By Buddhism Now on 8 January 2010 • ( 4 )

  

  In the Theravada teachings on samatha-vipassanà, they divide meditation ― that English word ‘meditation’ ― into tranquillity and insight (samatha and vipassanà).

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