‘Mind, It’s like space. You can’t possess it and you can’t lose it.’
Bodhidharma
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation: Only one familiar with the observation of mind.
‘Only one familiar with the observation of mind can really understand Dhamma.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation: Mind doesn’t appear as a monk or a layman.
‘Mind doesn’t appear as a monk or a layman, an elder or a novice, a sage or a fool, a Buddha or a mortal.’
Bodhidharma
Five Talks on Atammayatā — the highest knowledge in this world, as described by the Thai Forest monk Ajahn Buddhadāsa.
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu introduces the Pāli word ‘atammayatā’ as something that might seem a little bit strange, but we’ve been traveling all over looking for it without even knowing it.
Morning Meditation — To keep observing the nature of our thoughts generates a mind emptied of Dukkha.
‘To keep observing the nature of our thoughts generates a mind emptied of Dukkha, and so, is the very best knowledge there is. Through it we gain familiarity with the realization or awareness of emptiness.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — Only one familiar with the observation of mind can really understand Dhamma.
‘The most essential meaning of the word ‘study’ is of the unceasing, dedicated observation and investigation of whatever arises in the mind, be it pleasant or unpleasant. Only one familiar with the observation of mind can really understand Dhamma.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation —When we say that there is no self.
‘When we say that there is no self, people get worried, or angry. Their attachment and identification to this idea of a self is so strong.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — When one has perfected this practice (Atammayata).
‘When one has perfected this practice (Atammayata), there is no “person” who watches “things”. There are no “things” to be watched. There is no “watcher”. There is no “feeling of watching”. All of these have disappeared.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhism now 