Buddhism Now

16/09/2026

Buddhist practice: Rikyū understood the role of a cup of tea in a wise and calm life. �Short Buddhist video. Sen no Rikyū and Wabi Sabi�https://wp.me/pFy3u-6lq.

Enjoy a cup of tea.

15/09/2026

The [authors] must have been spiritual aristocrats, who had in fact achieved Enlightenment and, though scholars, were writing from the point-of-view of the Enlightened
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Perfect Wisdom: The Short Prajnaparamita Texts trans by Edward Conze.
ISBN 9780946672288

15/09/2026

May all those lost in the pain of jealousy, find delight in the success of others.

Goodnight everyone look after yourself.

15/09/2026

Tea time at Kalachakra was a sight to behold. How else are thirty thousand people going to get their cuppas. https://wp.me/pFy3u-1qy.

And they dashed in groups! Tea time at Kalachakra was a sight to behold. How else are thirty thousand people going to get their cuppas in such a short time unless it is with great speed? Besides, t…

15/09/2026

Buddhist insights: 'Mindfulness is not thinking, this is one of the reasons it is so powerful' http://wp.me/pFy3u-JT by Trevor Leggett

Mindfulness in words — trying to make an internal commentary of what one is doing — is just a kind of illusion.

15/09/2026

Buddhist practice: For a time one may be satisfied with echoes. 'Paper Belief', by Trevor Leggett http://wp.me/pFy3u-3zA.

However, for a time one may be satisfied with echoes, or even think that they are what is sought. Such experts in the holy texts may be satisfied themselves, and satisfy others, with quotations. Th…

14/09/2026

May all beings caught in the delusion of suffering, find liberation.

Goodnight everyone look after yourself.

14/09/2026

Buddhist read: The practice of generosity supplants meanness. Practice of kindness supplants anger. Practice of compassion supplants envy and dislike.
Rediscover the way, the mystery, and wonder of things. 'Opening the Heart' by John Aske http://wp.me/pFy3u-1zT.

Life in the West is full or problems and traumas, and we move from one to the next like a blind person finding the way along a rope bridge. We can, it is true, refuse to see the ‘bad’ things, or si…

14/09/2026

Buddhist practice: It's never too late to learn how to meditate. You can start right now with these first steps into Buddhist meditation http://wp.me/pFy3u-1zX.

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…