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• Morning meditation — The early Buddhist forest-dwellers saw themselves not as individuals with rigid identities.

  By Buddhism Now on 6 January 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The early Buddhist forest-dwellers saw themselves not as individuals with rigid identities but as part of the interconnected flow of all things, just as impermanent and insubstantial as the trees and rivers around them.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — For those steeped in conventional ideas about teachers.

  By Buddhism Now on 5 January 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘For those steeped in conventional ideas about teachers, doctrines, and spiritual attainment, the Buddha’s self-enlightenment was difficult to grasp.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — Have a few cups of tea.

  By Buddhism Now on 4 January 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Gorge yourself first on the drink of sages;
  Have a few cups of tea, and then
  like the famed Hermit Luipa,
  you will quickly gain siddhi.’

  Yangchen Shepai Dorje

• Whatever is past is past, so do not sit in judgement upon it, by Hui Hai.

  By Buddhism Now on 3 January 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  When minding about the future ceases of itself, it can be said that there is no future.

• Morning meditation — Why do you have doubts?

  By Buddhism Now on 2 January 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Why do you have doubts? Who is it that doubts? Only through self-examination can you understand.’

  Ajahn Chah

• Happy New Year everyone. — Whatever is in the future is not here yet.

  By Buddhism Now on 1 January 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘Whatever is in the future is not here yet, so do not direct your hopes and longings towards it; for, when minding about the future ceases of itself, it can be said that there is no future.’

  Hui Hai

• Morning meditation — The past is an idea.

  By Buddhism Now on 31 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The past is an idea.
  The future is an idea.
  All the time; all the time.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — In the quest to accomplish the wisdom tradition.

  By Buddhism Now on 30 December 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘In the quest to accomplish the wisdom tradition
  As taught by the mighty Tathagata himself,
  Keep inner vision as your peerless guide;
  Launch into meditation on the nature of voidness,
  Legacy of Nagarjuna, and accomplish his state.’

  Yangchen Shepai Dorje

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