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Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine, giving advice on how to practise Buddhism.
Buddhist read: Reading a sutra by moonlight. The sun rises, the moon sets—when will it ever be fully understood? wp.me/pFy3u-9Uy.
Reading a sutra by moonlight.
The sun rises, the moon sets—when will it ever be fully understood?
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February 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: Reading a sutra by moonlight. The sun rises, the moon sets—when will it ever be fully understood? wp.me/pFy3u-9Uy.
Buddhist practice: Short video of a Nepalese sacred-art. 'Eye-opener', Sonam Sherpa. wp.me/pFy3u-37F (around 6 minutes) #Buddhist Art
The Eye-opener, a short video of Nepalese sacred-art.
A short video of a Nepalese sacred-art master and his journey of patience and time. (around 6 minutes)
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February 3, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Buddhist practice: Short video of a Nepalese sacred-art. 'Eye-opener', Sonam Sherpa. wp.me/pFy3u-37F (around 6 minutes) #Buddhist Art
So when facing difficulties, sometimes just thinking of the phrase ‘everything is subject to change’ will give strength to my mind.
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Night night sleep tight.
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Night night sleep tight.
February 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
So when facing difficulties, sometimes just thinking of the phrase ‘everything is subject to change’ will give strength to my mind.
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Night night sleep tight.
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Night night sleep tight.
Followers of the way: Southern Song Academy masters provided a bridge between tradition and the new Chan (Zen) Buddhism painting. wp.me/pFy3u-3PK Film 72min
From Academy to Chan: Liang Kai
This last of the four Southern Song Academy masters is shown as providing a bridge between that tradition and the new kind of painting associated with Chan (Zen) Buddhism: why it was preserved almo…
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February 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Followers of the way: Southern Song Academy masters provided a bridge between tradition and the new Chan (Zen) Buddhism painting. wp.me/pFy3u-3PK Film 72min
'Questions of monks to their teacher Ajahn Chah' (Part Two). wp.me/pFy3u-4cF.
Two: Questions of Monks to their Teacher Ajahn Chah
Practice is separate from any posture. It is a matter of directly looking at the mind.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:53 PM
'Questions of monks to their teacher Ajahn Chah' (Part Two). wp.me/pFy3u-4cF.
Buddhist insights: Ordinary Mind is Tao. Hundreds of flowers in spring, the moon in autumn. 'Zen Comments on the Mumonkan' wp.me/pFy3u-cr.
Ordinary Mind is Tao
Mumon’s Poem: Hundreds of flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, The cool breeze in summer and snow in winter; If there is no vain cloud in your mind, for you it is a good season.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Buddhist insights: Ordinary Mind is Tao. Hundreds of flowers in spring, the moon in autumn. 'Zen Comments on the Mumonkan' wp.me/pFy3u-cr.
Morning meditation — Not-two does not arrive as a philosophy.
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Morning meditation — Not-two does not arrive as a philosophy.
‘In practice, the insight of not-two does not arrive as a philosophy, but as a felt shift in perception.’ Everyday Buddhist
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February 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — Not-two does not arrive as a philosophy.
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Buddhist read: Accumulating Good Karma is Beautiful, by Geshe Gedun Tharchin wp.me/pFy3u-3ga.
Accumulating Good Karma is Beautiful, by Geshe Gedun Tharchin
In Buddhism we are taught of the nonduality of samsara and nirvana. We do not need to be on a high level in order to understand this nonduality of samsara and nirvana; it is just a matter of being …
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February 2, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: Accumulating Good Karma is Beautiful, by Geshe Gedun Tharchin wp.me/pFy3u-3ga.
Buddhist practice: Book Cover from a 10th or 11th century Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra. wp.me/pFy3u-4dr.
Book Cover from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra Astasahasrika
This painted cover for a palm-leaf manuscript belongs to the Pala- Nepalese tradition. It comes from a palm-leaf edition of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra (“Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 V…
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February 2, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Buddhist practice: Book Cover from a 10th or 11th century Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra. wp.me/pFy3u-4dr.
The Buddha’s teachings are not abstract doctrines but practical guides for awakening.
Goodnight everyone take care of yourself.
Goodnight everyone take care of yourself.
February 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The Buddha’s teachings are not abstract doctrines but practical guides for awakening.
Goodnight everyone take care of yourself.
Goodnight everyone take care of yourself.
Present! — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi wp.me/pFy3u-3wS Talks at Tassajara Zen Mountain Centre (Around 26 minutes)
Present! — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Present! Talks of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (Around 26 minutes) Talks at Tassajara Zen Mountain Centre.
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February 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Present! — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi wp.me/pFy3u-3wS Talks at Tassajara Zen Mountain Centre (Around 26 minutes)
🙏🙏🙏 for all of your support this week.
February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
🙏🙏🙏 for all of your support this week.
Buddhist read: What is it that one sees when one looks at the world? 'Two Levels of Truth' wp.me/pFy3u-2Lv
Lama Chime Rinpoche.
Lama Chime Rinpoche.
Two Levels of Truth, by Lama Chime Rinpoche
It is said that for the absolute, one has wisdom, and for the relative, one has compassion. After his enlightenment Buddha did not need to teach people in order for them to become essentially wiser…
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February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Buddhist read: What is it that one sees when one looks at the world? 'Two Levels of Truth' wp.me/pFy3u-2Lv
Lama Chime Rinpoche.
Lama Chime Rinpoche.
Buddhist insights: Everyday Buddhist: We talk about the doors to the deathless, but it’s not something out there, something remote or hidden. ‘Emotional Habits’ by Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-1ps.
Emotional Habits, by Ajahn Sumedho
We talk about the doors to the deathless, but it’s not something out there, something remote or hidden. The Buddha pointed to this mindfulness—this is the path to the deathless…
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February 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Buddhist insights: Everyday Buddhist: We talk about the doors to the deathless, but it’s not something out there, something remote or hidden. ‘Emotional Habits’ by Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-1ps.
Morning meditation — Once we penetrate to the truth.
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Morning meditation — Once we penetrate to the truth.
‘Once we penetrate to the truth, we are freed from everything. Only peace remains.’ Ajahn Chah
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February 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — Once we penetrate to the truth.
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Buddhist read: What is it that one sees when one looks at the world? 'Two Levels of Truth' wp.me/pFy3u-2Lv Lama Chime Rinpoche.
Two Levels of Truth, by Lama Chime Rinpoche
It is said that for the absolute, one has wisdom, and for the relative, one has compassion. After his enlightenment Buddha did not need to teach people in order for them to become essentially wiser…
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February 1, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: What is it that one sees when one looks at the world? 'Two Levels of Truth' wp.me/pFy3u-2Lv Lama Chime Rinpoche.
Buddhist practice: Everyday Buddhist: How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-3hK.
How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho
That awareness, that light, is universal; it isn’t like my personal property. That’s why on an intuitive level we can resonate; many of you can intuitively understand what I’m saying.
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February 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Buddhist practice: Everyday Buddhist: How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-3hK.
Learned Audience, the Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realise it ourselves.
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone look after yourself.
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone look after yourself.
January 31, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Learned Audience, the Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realise it ourselves.
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone look after yourself.
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone look after yourself.
Followers of the way: Buddhist sutras traditionally begin with the words, ‘Thus I have heard,’ ‘The Beginning of Buddhism and Development of the Schools’ by John Aske wp.me/pFy3u-1br.
The Beginning of Buddhism and Development of the Schools, by John Aske
The Buddha in effect produced a manual for seeing life as it is and dealing with it and its problems, undeluded by idealistic belief systems or the claims of great yogic power…
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January 31, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Followers of the way: Buddhist sutras traditionally begin with the words, ‘Thus I have heard,’ ‘The Beginning of Buddhism and Development of the Schools’ by John Aske wp.me/pFy3u-1br.
Buddhist insights: Zen: The deep source of realisation comes with constancy. 'Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss', by Hongzhi. wp.me/pFy3u-3iK.
Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss by Hongzhi
Dwelling in peace and forgetting hardship, let go of adornments and become genuine. Chinese Zen master Hongzhi
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January 31, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Buddhist insights: Zen: The deep source of realisation comes with constancy. 'Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss', by Hongzhi. wp.me/pFy3u-3iK.
Morning meditation — The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’.
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Morning meditation — The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’.
‘The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’, beyond ‘eternal’ and ‘annihilated‘, and ultimately beyond any view that divides experience into fixed categories.’ Everyday Buddhist
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January 31, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — The Buddha points beyond ‘is’ and ‘is not’.
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Buddhist read: Buddhist practice: Overcome animosity by practising loving-kindness. wp.me/pFy3u-1nm The Development of Loving-kindness.
The Development of Loving-kindness
Just as the radiance of all the stars does not equal a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance, but the moon’s radiance surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant, even so, whatever ground…
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January 31, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: Buddhist practice: Overcome animosity by practising loving-kindness. wp.me/pFy3u-1nm The Development of Loving-kindness.
Buddhist practice: Many people take up yoga feeling they are acquiring something for themselves. Money Attracts Money, by Trevor Leggett wp.me/pFy3u-4aL.
Money Attracts Money, by Trevor Leggett
The yogic application of this little story is that the spiritual attracts the spiritual.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Buddhist practice: Many people take up yoga feeling they are acquiring something for themselves. Money Attracts Money, by Trevor Leggett wp.me/pFy3u-4aL.
I said, 'When you are thinking of neither good nor evil, what is at that particular moment, Venerable Sir, your real nature (literally, original face)?'
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone.
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone.
January 30, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I said, 'When you are thinking of neither good nor evil, what is at that particular moment, Venerable Sir, your real nature (literally, original face)?'
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone.
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone.
Everyday Buddhist: If you don’t let go, there will be suffering, by Ajahn Chah. wp.me/pFy3u-3l0.
If you don’t let go, there will be suffering, by Ajahn Chah
In the field of conventional reality, one side is right and the other side is wrong, and there can never be complete agreement. Arguing till the tears fall, however, is of no use whatsoever. The Bu…
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January 30, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Everyday Buddhist: If you don’t let go, there will be suffering, by Ajahn Chah. wp.me/pFy3u-3l0.