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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)
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February 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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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.
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.
Buddhist insights: In Buddhism it's taught that most of what happens is result of our previous actions wp.me/pFy3u-QJ ‘Five Protections Against Sorrow’.
Five Protections Against Sorrow
In Buddhism it is taught that almost everything that happens to us, good or bad, is the result of previous actions — it is our karma…
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January 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Buddhist insights: In Buddhism it's taught that most of what happens is result of our previous actions wp.me/pFy3u-QJ ‘Five Protections Against Sorrow’.
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Thank you.
There is no Bodhi-tree,
Nor stand of a mirror bright.
Since all is void,
Where can the dust alight?
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone enjoy the simple insight of this verse.
Nor stand of a mirror bright.
Since all is void,
Where can the dust alight?
Hui Neng
Goodnight everyone enjoy the simple insight of this verse.
January 29, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Thank you.
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‘I realize now that my cat has the true scientific spirit of taking nothing for granted, and of investigating everything whereas,’ he added, ‘I admit that, before, I used to think our cat was a bit of a fool.’
Enquiry, too, can become a sort of slogan, as blind faith can become a slogan. One of our science pundits said... 'Instruction, observation, and experience', by Trevor Leggett wp.me/pFy3u-uo.
Instruction, observation, and experience. by Trevor Leggett
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…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:15 PM
‘I realize now that my cat has the true scientific spirit of taking nothing for granted, and of investigating everything whereas,’ he added, ‘I admit that, before, I used to think our cat was a bit of a fool.’
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Morning meditation — Delusion is clever because it can manifest in subtle, seemingly benign ways.
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Morning meditation — Delusion is clever because it can manifest in subtle, seemingly benign ways.
‘Delusion is clever because it can manifest in subtle, seemingly benign ways. It is not always dramatic or obvious. It can take the form of attachment to opinions, the unquestioned belief in our sense of self, or the assumption that things will remain as they are.’ Everyday Buddhism
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January 30, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Morning meditation — Delusion is clever because it can manifest in subtle, seemingly benign ways.
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Buddhist read: 'Seeing The Unseen' by Trevor Leggett. ‘It is clear before you, but you do not see it,’ says the Zen master. wp.me/pFy3u-5SO.
Seeing The Unseen by Trevor Leggett
‘It is clear before you, but you do not see it,’ says the Zen master.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Buddhist read: 'Seeing The Unseen' by Trevor Leggett. ‘It is clear before you, but you do not see it,’ says the Zen master. wp.me/pFy3u-5SO.