Buddhism Now

23/07/2025

Buddhist insights: In the vast landscape of the mind, two forces are constantly at play: delusion and awareness.
Buddha as Person, Buddha as Experience is a spiritual travelogue that invites readers on an inner journey guided by one of the most profound figures in history.
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As we live it, our practice becomes the vessel that carries us forward, and with each moment of awareness, we touch upon the truth the Buddha himself encountered under the Bodhi tree.

23/07/2025

Buddhist read: Often it is described as feeling at one with the universe. 'The Still Silence', Ajahn Sumedho: http://wp.me/pFy3u-10T.

We can get very angry if we become attached to silence and stillness and sensory deprivation; it is so pleasant not to have things impinging on the senses once we get used to it. And if we attach t…

23/07/2025

Buddhist practice: Buddhism has been tried and tested for over 2,500 years https://buddhismnow.com/ Take a look, bound to be something that works for you.

Welcome to Buddhism Now an online Buddhist magazine, giving advice on how to practise Buddhism

22/07/2025

As the mind becomes more refined through this practice, the veil of ignorance lifts, and one begins to perceive the truth of the Unconditioned.

Goodnight sweet awareness.

22/07/2025

Looking for some Buddhism? 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.

22/07/2025

Buddhist insights: Half the problem of Dukkha is the barriers we put up against it.
The Problem of Dukkha, by John Aske.
https://wp.me/pFy3u-6mN.

Half the problem of Dukkha is the barriers we put up against it.

22/07/2025

Buddhist read: Emptiness is not something where things that exist disappear by means of practice. 'The Heart Sutra' http://wp.me/pFy3u-Xx Harada Rōshi

Our purpose for living is to become No-mind/No-self, and a person who has become No-mind/No-self is called a Buddha. Each action we make is completely Empty, it is Nothingness, and if we express th…

22/07/2025

Buddhist practice: People think that the gift of the gab and being smart, are signs of wisdom, by Hakuin Zenji.
https://wp.me/pFy3u-9un.

The Buddhist world is now filled with people of their sort.

21/07/2025

In his profound teachings, the Buddha illuminated the possibility of liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth — what we know as samsara.

Goodnight everyone sleep tight.

21/07/2025

Everyday Buddhist: The teaching grates against our desires, by Ajahn Chah. http://wp.me/pFy3u-3AY.

So, if there’s friction in your practice, then it’s right. If there’s no friction it’s not right, you just eat and sleep as much as you want. When you want to go anywhere or say anything, you just …

21/07/2025

Buddhist insights: 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…

21/07/2025

Buddhist read: I realised that only an idiot would go on a journey without a map, and an even greater idiot is one who takes a map and doesn't read it. Vital Actions by John Peaty http://wp.me/pFy3u-1Hk.

Within the first six months of my coming across Buddhism, I had bought about two dozen Buddha-rupas, Kwan-yins, joss sticks, and enough books to open a library that would rival the one at Eccleston…