Buddhism Now

28/11/2025

Buddhist read: ‘Emptiness True Health’, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu https://wp.me/pFy3u-2W6.

The medicine which cures the disease is the knowledge and practice that gives birth to emptiness. When emptiness has appeared it will be the cure of the disease and alter recovery from the disease …

28/11/2025

Buddhist practice: Over 25,000 people have enjoyed these old photos from Japan. http://wp.me/pFy3u-2it
It has some marvellous Buddhist photographs from 1865.

Buddhist Photographs of Japan in 1865

27/11/2025

Enlightenment is not the annihilation of the self, but the awakening to the truth that the self was never real to begin with. What remains is not emptiness as a void, but emptiness as a boundless, luminous awareness — the very nature of the Buddha.

Goodnight everyone sleep tight

27/11/2025

Buddhist read: There are many ways of practising metta, loving kindness. . 'There's No Point in Punishing the Car' by Ven. Ananda Maitreya: http://wp.me/pFy3u-fr.

There are many ways of practising metta, loving kindness.

27/11/2025

If you want to explore the key teachings of Buddhism, give 'Don't Take Your Life Personally' by Ajahn Sumedho a go.

5🌟 review: "Ajahn Sumedho's teaching is the perfect fit for me"
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27/11/2025

Buddhist insights: Without bringing thoughts into his mind, he is all the time enlightening the whole universe. What sort of sutra is this, by Hakuin Zenji https://wp.me/pFy3u-9u4.

The sword which he holds in his right hand shows that he cuts off all illusionary ideas

27/11/2025

Buddhist read: Buddhist Art: Seated Buddha Shakyamuni https://wp.me/pFy3u-4LD.

Shakyamuni Buddha, the Right Hand in Abhaya Mudra, the Left Hand Holding a Jewel, Chinese, late 6th century.

27/11/2025

Buddhist practice: Free eBook: The Lotus Transcendent: highlights include exceptional Gandharan minor arts, rare and remarkable examples of Indian art, and sculpture from Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Tibet. https://wp.me/pFy3u-4Mk.

Free eBook: The Lotus Transcendent: highlights include exceptional Gandharan arts.

26/11/2025

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.

26/11/2025

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 https://wp.me/pFy3u-4sV.

This is called dukkha (suffering). But there is a profounder meaning to it.

26/11/2025

Everyday Buddhist: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, 'The Three Refuges', by Ajahn Sumedho http://wp.me/pFy3u-293.

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…

26/11/2025

Buddhist insight: Anicca: All that arises ceases, the Buddha http://wp.me/sFy3u-anicca.

One of the first insights of the Buddha ‘all that arises ceases’, are not reality, not nirvana, not liberation.