Buddhism Now

21/06/2026

Buddhist practice: 'Luminosity of the Mind' something that I cannot simply explain in words to you. Dalai Lama http://bit.ly/DLmind.

In relation to the nature of mind, what is luminosity? In this respect it might be interesting to reflect on a passage which one finds in certain texts which says that ‘between the arisal of …

20/06/2026

Q: How can the delusive thoughts of living beings be destroyed?
A: In so far as one sees dilutive thoughts and their destruction, one will never leave the delusive thoughts.
A Dialogue on the Contemplation-Extinguished.

Goodnight everyone sleep tight.

20/06/2026

Buddhism a path of awareness. Diana St Ruth http://wp.me/pFy3u-1e2.

You sometimes hear widely accepted teachings in Buddhism being argued about and all but dismissed, but Buddhism is for testing. Isn’t that the whole point? But you do hear these tussles going on& #8…

20/06/2026

Buddhist insights: What method must be practised? 'Birth and Death', by Shen Hui http://wp.me/pFy3u-2hv Zen

However hard I practise seeing my true nature, I am always brought back into birth and death. What method must be practised in order to obtain the birthless and the deathless?

20/06/2026

Buddhist read: One Total Reality which is no illusion at all, by Phiroz Mehta. https://wp.me/pFy3u-6bZ.

My brain keeps chattering and playing about with the thing all the time.

20/06/2026

Buddhist practice: Buddhism: The path to awakening is impossible to map.
This is why we call it the Path, by Jingjue.
https://wp.me/pFy3u-603.

The path to awakening is impossible to map.

19/06/2026

I appear in the midst of the activities of all sentient beings without leaving the presence of all the Buddhas.
Avalokiteshvara,
Flower Ornament Sutra

Goodnight everyone.

19/06/2026

Buddhist practice: Everyday Zen: 'Your own spiritual light will shine forth permanently', by Hui Neng http://wp.me/pFy3u-3ed.

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…

19/06/2026

Buddhist insights: The more we contemplate life, the more we realise just how mysterious it is. 'Karma: Innocent Action', by Diana St Ruth https://wp.me/pFy3u-4L0.

Karma: The more we contemplate life, the more we realise just how mysterious it is.

19/06/2026

Buddhist read: I found most of it occupied not by books, but by thousands of delicately incised boards of the kind formerly used for printing Chinese texts
A bit of Buddhist history. Discovering the Text of Zen master Hui Hai, by John Blofeld http://wp.me/pFy3u-1Vl.

Back in my room, which even at midday was rather dark, I lighted a red votive candle and began idly glancing through the pages of the old gentleman’s gift. It proved to be a reprint of an eig…