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Vesak: The Most Important Buddhist Holiday? 0 YoshidaYui 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 0 137
Groundhog Day the movie is a Buddhist parable for our times. (24,000th post) 13 usonian Feb 2026 Apr 29 21 2558
You Will Never Get Angry After Watching This Short Buddhist Story. 7 YoshidaYui Jan 2025 Sep 2025 11 4061
What Makes Japanese Buddhism So Unique? SLICE 0 YoshidaYui Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1708
Hungry Ghosts: the t haunt/insatiable hunger that can't be filled 2 cbabe May 2025 Jun 2025 12 2450
Buddhist joke 6 bif Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 3427
🙏 Beautiful Steps into Enlightenment at the Buddhist Temple 🙏 0 YoshidaYui Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 2569
A frozen tree blossoms in the dead of winter. 0 WheelWalker Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 2467
Zen: The Easiest Path to Enlightenment 1 YoshidaYui Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 2697
a pic of Kuan Yin, 79 meters tall - Happy Bodhi Day! 0 Stargleamer Dec 2024 Dec 2024 18 2411
5 Superfighters (1979) Cult Movie Theater - full movie 0 YoshidaYui Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 2849
Buddhist Denominations Explained Theravada vs Mahayana 0 YoshidaYui Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 2867
''A drop of water can reflect the whole sky'' Dogen 1 Donkees Aug 2024 Aug 2024 16 2690
Mindfulness in Times of Great Conflict 2 nealr Jul 2024 Jul 2024 2 2899
"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." 6 TeamProg May 2024 Jul 2024 14 4484
"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have." - Gautam Buddha 4 TeamProg May 2024 May 2024 11 3816
Swimming on the ocean surface, you touch the bottom of the sea - Dogen Zenji 1 Donkees Apr 2024 Apr 2024 8 3400
Online retreat, you can do in a chair!! 11 sunflowerseed Oct 2023 Nov 2023 2 7546
The Shambhala Warrior Prophecy 7 vlyons Nov 2023 Nov 2023 20 7856
"Citta" - The Mind's Essential Knowing Nature - Ajahn Maha Boowa - Thai Forest Theravada Buddhism 5 Newest Reality Nov 2020 Jul 2023 2 11477
"Painting Spring" - Dogen 0 Donkees Apr 2023 Apr 2023 7 4213
🌸 Hanafubuki - Flower Snow Storm 3 Donkees May 2022 Dec 2022 5 9574
New Kadampa founder Kelsang Gyatso 1 RevBrotherThomas Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 7730
천상의꽃 Heavenly Flower 2 soryang Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 3516
무생화(보현스님) Lifeless Flower - Bohyun Seunim 0 soryang Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 5788
National Buddhist Alliance Choir performs in Busan, South Korea 1 soryang Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 8545
festival of lights..in MHW 0 YoshidaYui May 2022 May 2022 1 2827
Nurturing Mind 🌿 the mind of treating all things as sacred. 0 Donkees May 2022 May 2022 9 7455
ZEN - The Life of Zen Master Dogen - Full Film 1 Donkees May 2022 May 2022 3 5641
🌸 'Yet in attachment blossoms fall, and in aversion weeds spread' 0 Donkees Apr 2022 Apr 2022 4 7069

Buddhism Continued...

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Flowing 0 Donkees Apr 2022 Apr 2022 6 2963
'Sitting with Eyes Open in the Flames of the World' 1 Donkees Apr 2022 Apr 2022 7 6094
Buddha Twirling a Flower 🌸 Revealing a World of Bliss 5 Donkees Apr 2022 Apr 2022 3 8966
Dogen: ''A drop of water can reflect the whole sky'' 6 Donkees Apr 2022 Apr 2022 10 5285
🌸 ''The entire world is mind ground; the entire world is blossom heart ... 7 Donkees Apr 2022 Apr 2022 7 8510
🌸 3 Donkees Jan 2022 Jan 2022 6 4222
Journeys in Japan 〜Mount Daisen: Mystical Rites, Local Life〜 1 YoshidaYui Jan 2022 Jan 2022 1 7905
These are very hard times 7 vlyons Nov 2021 Nov 2021 21 7007
XUAN ZANG: Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film｜Huang Xiaoming, Xu Zheng 大唐玄奘【Huashi T 0 YoshidaYui Oct 2021 Oct 2021 1 7836
Link to free 6-day mindfulness summit 2 JudyM Sep 2021 Oct 2021 3 7093
This message was self-deleted by its author 3 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jul 2021 4 8767
Songs of Realization - Khenpo Tsltrim Gyamtso Rinpoche - Karma Kagyu - Tibetan Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Apr 2021 Apr 2021 1 12776
Self Liberation through seeing with Naked Awareness - Padmasambhava - Dzogchen 0 Newest Reality Apr 2021 Apr 2021 4 8843
The Goryeo Dynasty: Buddhist Unifier of the Korean Peninsula 0 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 3 4064
The Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedikā Prajāpāramitā Sūtra) - Mahayana, Zen Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Feb 2021 Feb 2021 4 13162
Buddhism and giving anonymous gifts,,,Like a DU star. 13 safeinOhio Feb 2021 Feb 2021 12 10692
Larry Ward's Response to Insurrection and Guided Practice 0 oioioi Jan 2021 Jan 2021 1 9826
Christmas message from a friend 5 grantcart Dec 2020 Dec 2020 33 6343
Namkai Norbu - (Part 2) - Advice for Establishing Presence and Awareness - Dzogchen 0 Newest Reality Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 8185
Namkai Norbu - Advice for Establishing Presence and Awareness - Dzogchen 2 Newest Reality Dec 2020 Dec 2020 3 6158
XUAN ZANG 7th Century Buddhist Monk's 25,000 km journey 0 soryang Dec 2020 Dec 2020 3 4290
Hanshan 寒山 - Cold Mountain Poems for Meditation - Zen Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Dec 2020 Dec 2020 3 5177
Verses on the Faith Mind - Seng-ts'an - Third Chinese Patriarch - Zen Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 5632
Hakuin Ekaku - Selected Poems and Verses for Meditation - Zen Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Nov 2020 Nov 2020 2 3820
Tilopa's Six Essential Points of Meditation - Mahamudra - Kagyu Tibetan Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Nov 2020 Nov 2020 3 5297
The Last Testament of Garab Dorje - The Three Statements that Strike the Essential Points - Dzogchen 0 Newest Reality Nov 2020 Nov 2020 1 6069
Crucial Advice: A Complete Set of Instructions for Dying and in the Bardos - Longchenpa - Dzogchen 2 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Nov 2020 3 5138
Song of Mind (Xin Ming) - Master Niutou Farong - Zen Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Nov 2020 Nov 2020 2 3797
Lama Shabkar - A Guided Meditation on Examining the "Mind" - Dzogchen 0 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 5901
Samaneri Jayasara - A Guided Meditation on No-Thing in Particular 0 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Oct 2020 0 4662

Buddhism Continued...

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Transforming Suffering and Happiness - A Meditation - The Third Dodrupchen Rinpoche - Dzogchen 2 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Oct 2020 2 6047
Bodhidharma - Bloodstream Sermon - First Zen Patriarch - Zen Buddhism 1 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 3966
Namkai Norbu - Selected Teachings and Pointers for Meditation - Dzogchen 3 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Oct 2020 1 6044
Venerable Ajahn Chah - Clear Pointers to the Truth and Meditation - Theravada Forest Tradition 0 Newest Reality Oct 2020 Oct 2020 0 3901
The Direct Instructions of Shri Singha to Padmasambhava (The Treasure of the Lotus Crystal Cave) 0 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 0 6980
"The Nature of Mind" - H.H. the 16th Karmapa - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje - Kagyu (Tibetan Buddhism) 2 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 1 6583
Instructions for Attaining Enlightenment - Padmasambhava - Guru Rinpoche - Dzogchen 4 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 0 5392
Guru Padmasambhava's Prophecies 0 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 0 3370
'Our Real Home' - Venerable Ajahn Chah - Thai Forest Theravada Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 5556
A Guided Meditation on Calm Abiding (Shamatha) - H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche - Dzogchen 0 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 1 4045
Instructions for Dying and in the Bardo - Padmasambhava - Guru Rinpoche - Dzogchen 2 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 6469
Profound Instructions for Meditation Practice - Upasika Kee Nanayon (3) - Theravada Forest Tradition 2 Newest Reality Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 4598
Longchenpa - A Meditation on Space - (Space without Centre or Edge) - Dzogchen - Vajrayana Buddhism 4 Newest Reality Aug 2020 Aug 2020 3 7573
Dogen Zenji - Shobogenzo - "Truth Unfolding" (Trans. Myers) - Zen Buddhism 0 Newest Reality Aug 2020 Aug 2020 3 6066
Patrul Rinpoche - A Guided Meditation - Self-Liberating Meditation - Dzogchen 0 Newest Reality Aug 2020 Aug 2020 1 4803
OM MANI PADME HUM 1 yuiyoshida Aug 2020 Aug 2020 6 4842
I must go 가야지 1 soryang Aug 2020 Aug 2020 5 3632
Four arrested over destruction of 1,700 year-old Buddha statue in Pakistan 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 7 6352
The Dalai Lama is live on FB now! 2 Maraya1969 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 5206
Zen Buddhist art of Japan: Hakuin Ekaku and teacher of all 0 soryang Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 5665
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