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• Morning meditation — The path to awakening.

  By Buddhism Now on 19 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The path to awakening
  Is impossible to map.
  It is lofty but has no ‘above’;
  Impossible to reach its limit.’

  Jingjue

• Morning Meditaton — If you have genuine insight.

  By Buddhism Now on 18 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘True understanding — if you have genuine insight, birth and death will not affect you, and you will be free to come and to go.’

  Zen Master Rinzai

• Morning meditation — Offers a profound insight into the nature of existence.

  By Buddhism Now on 17 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Buddha’s rejection of both annihilationism and nihilism offers a profound insight into the nature of existence — one that transcends the conventional ideas of life and death, being and non-being.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School.

  By Buddhism Now on 16 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School and attach no importance to rituals, and whose mind functions always under right views, so that they are absolutely free from defilements or contaminations, are said to know their Essence of Mind.’

  Hui Neng

• Morning meditation — But as a real refuge.

  By Buddhism Now on 15 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘But as a real refuge to take in order to see and realise the truth, you can look at the Buddha as that which is mindful, the pure intelligent awareness.’

  Ajahn Sumedho

• Morning meditation — The way of mindfulness is always appropriate.

  By Buddhism Now on 14 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The way of mindfulness is always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.’

  Ajahn Sumedho

• Morning meditation — The moment has endless possibilities.

  By Buddhism Now on 13 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘We are powerless to change the past, but the moment has endless possibilities.’

  Zen Graffiti

• Morning meditation — The Prajna immanent in the Essence of Mind of every one.

  By Buddhism Now on 12 May 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The Prajna immanent in the Essence of Mind of every one may be likened to the rain, the moisture of which refreshes every living thing, trees and plants as well as sentient beings.’

  Hui Neng

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