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Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine, giving advice on how to practise Buddhism.
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By understanding consciousness not as a stable entity but as a dynamic process, we open the door to profound insight into the nature of existence.

Goodnight 😴 sleep tight.
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Followers of the way: This is called dukkha (suffering). But there is a profounder meaning to it. For the Complete Ending of All Ill, by Phiroz Mehta wp.me/pFy3u-4sV.
For the Complete Ending of All Ill, by Phiroz Mehta
This is called dukkha (suffering). But there is a profounder meaning to it.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Buddhist practice: 'Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently', by Hui Neng
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Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently, by Hui Neng
Bhikkhu Zhi Chang, a native of Gui Xi of Xin Zhou, joined the Order in his childhood, and was very zealous in his efforts to realize the Essence of Mind. One day, he came to pay homage to the Patri…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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"Yes, the compassion ration certainly went up and up, didn't it?" agreed the priest. "My own teacher used to say that Compassion is catching."
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Compassion is catching by Trevor Leggett
I felt a sudden rush of something in my heart.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Everyday Buddhist: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, 'The Three Refuges', by Ajahn Sumedho wp.me/pFy3u-293.
The Three Refuges, by Ajahn Sumedho
The post discusses the underestimated significance of the three Buddhist refuges: Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. These aren’t merely traditional markers but pointers to reality. They elucidate t…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Buddhist insight: Anicca: All that arises ceases, the Buddha wp.me/sFy3u-anicca.
Anicca
One of the first insights of the Buddha ‘all that arises ceases’, are not reality, not nirvana, not liberation.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Morning meditation — What is required is a willingness to look deeply.
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Morning meditation — What is required is a willingness to look deeply.
‘What is required is a willingness to look deeply, to bring mindful awareness to the moment, and to allow the simple truth of the Dharma to unfold naturally.’ Everyday Buddhism
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November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Buddhist read: There are many ways of practising metta, loving kindness. #Metta. 'There's No Point in Punishing the Car' by Ven. Ananda Maitreya: wp.me/pFy3u-fr.
There’s No Point in Punishing the Car, by Ven. Ananda Maitreya
There are many ways of practising metta, loving kindness.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Buddhist practice: It's never too late to learn how to meditate. You can start right now with these first steps into Buddhist meditation wp.me/pFy3u-1zX.
First steps into Buddhist meditation
You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself, or make other people say and do the things you want them to say and do. All of your power is contained within this moment, related t…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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He [Buddha] does not speak that which is deceitful, nor does he speak that which is alien. There is no mistake in even one phrase or line of the discourses of the World Honoured One.
Bassui Tokushō

Goodnight everyone look after yourself.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Buddhist practice: 'Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently', by Hui Neng
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Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently, by Hui Neng
Bhikkhu Zhi Chang, a native of Gui Xi of Xin Zhou, joined the Order in his childhood, and was very zealous in his efforts to realize the Essence of Mind. One day, he came to pay homage to the Patri…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"Yes, the compassion ration certainly went up and up, didn't it?" agreed the priest. "My own teacher used to say that Compassion is catching."
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Compassion is catching by Trevor Leggett
I felt a sudden rush of something in my heart.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Buddhist insights: Buddhist meditation: There is this one way for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrows and griefs… Satipatthana Sutta: The Buddha's teaching on mindfulness wp.me/pFy3u-1dY.
Satipatthana Sutta
There is this one way for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrows and griefs, for the going down of sufferings and miseries, for winning the right path, for realizing nibbana, tha…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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October 1990 Buddhism Now
Buddhism Now archives. We are posting the covers of old paper versions of Buddhism Now including selected articles.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Morning meditation — It is this quiet, persistent practice.
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Morning meditation — It is this quiet, persistent practice.
‘The Buddha often likened his teachings to a raft — a means of crossing the river of suffering to reach the far shore of liberation. Once the far shore is reached, there is no need to carry the raft further.’ Everyday Buddhism
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November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Buddhist read: 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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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Buddhist practice: 'Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently', by Hui Neng
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Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently, by Hui Neng
Bhikkhu Zhi Chang, a native of Gui Xi of Xin Zhou, joined the Order in his childhood, and was very zealous in his efforts to realize the Essence of Mind. One day, he came to pay homage to the Patri…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Thus at times it goes well and at times it does not. However, when it is going well, do not be pleased. For then you will succumb to the demon of joy. And when it is not going well, do not be upset.
Kusan Sunim

Goodnight everyone.
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Thus at times it goes well and at times it does not. However, when it is going well, do not be pleased. For then you will succumb to the demon of joy. And when it is not going well, do not be upset.
Kusan Sunim

Goodnight everyone.
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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A Buddhist parable, 'Forest and the Way Out', by Ananda Maitreya wp.me/pFy3u-Xu Enjoy!
Forest and the Way Out, by Ananda Maitreya
Centuries passed by. Incalculable was the crowd at the inn now and many were the discussions as to the interpretations of what had been written on the slab at the signpost. Some professed to know w…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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For our Dutch friends.
Het zen onderricht over het onmiddellijk ontwaken. Een complete vertaling van de teksten van Ch’an meester Hui Hai (8e eeuw). Hui Hai was een van de vroege ch’an/zen meesters, tijdgenoot van zowel Ma Tsu als Huang Po.
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Het zen onderricht van Ch’an meester Hui Hai
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November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Buddhist insights: When I forgot myself, it was exactly like that. There was nothing obtained and nothing was thrown away. 
Accepting the Moment 'Now', by Harada Sekkei Roshi
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Accepting the Moment ‘Now’, by Harada Sekkei Roshi
When I forgot myself, it was exactly like that. There was nothing obtained and nothing was thrown away.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Morning meditation — The relationship between anicca (impermanence) and patience (kṣānti).
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Morning meditation — The relationship between anicca (impermanence) and patience (kṣānti).
‘Another integration that deepens through Buddhist practice is the relationship between anicca (impermanence) and patience (kṣānti).’ Everyday Buddhism
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November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Buddhist read: When the practice is as deep as this, how could you not awaken? 'Solely from the Mind', by Kusan Sunim wp.me/pFy3u-23X.
Solely from the Mind, by Kusan Sunim
If someone practises in this way, then whether walking, standing, sitting, lying, talking or not talking, in the midst of activity or nonactivity, the hwadu (Koan) will be always vivid…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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"I read through this short book in just a few days and enjoyed it so much I've started rereading it again!”
‘Teachings of a Buddhist Monk’ by Ajahn Sumedho.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM