‘Many monks who practise in meditation halls often just settle down in such places. Thus out of ten practitioners eight or nine are unable to pierce through the barrier of the patriarchs.’
Kusan Sunim
Mahayana
Morning meditation — Many monks who practise in meditation halls.
‘Many monks who practise in meditation halls often just settle down in such places. Thus out of ten practitioners eight or nine are unable to pierce through the barrier of the patriarchs.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — While we are unenlightened.
‘While we are unenlightened, there is an element of shared or general experience.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience.
‘Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience rather than somebody else’s. It is your experience, and thus is different from the personal experience of others.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — The great beings see with their wisdom eye.
‘The great beings see with their wisdom eye
All things like reflections of forms;
They do not become stuck In the mire of so-called objects.’
Arya Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — When you dream at night you see all sorts of different things.
‘When you dream at night you see all sorts of different things. Are those things seen with the eyes? You believe you have eyes in the dream, don’t you? You walk around and look all over, yet in reality your eyes are closed and you’re in bed.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Just because one believes one has eyes.
‘Just because one believes one has eyes and can therefore see does not change the fact that what one is experiencing is basically mind experience.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Buddhism now 