‘The Buddha said that the assertion that all things are empty refers to nothing other than the awareness that they are empty of selfhood.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation —So where do we learn?
‘So where do we learn? We learn here in this very body with its perceptions and mental activity.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born.
‘If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born, not-brought-to-being, not-made, not-conditioned, no escape would be discerned from what is born, brought-to-being, made, conditioned.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — The single phrase ‘empty of self’.
‘‘The single phrase ‘empty of self’ sums up the words ‘impermanent (anicca), unsatisfactory (dukkha) and not self (anatta)’.’’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — Knowing the root cause of Dukkha.
‘Knowing the root cause of Dukkha, one will be able to extinguish it. That root cause is delusion, the wrong understanding that there is a self and things belonging to a self.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation — This is a fundamental illusion.
‘This is a fundamental illusion constantly being conditioned in the human mind, in the mind of all sentient beings. And it is rooted in ignorance. This illusion, the idea of a self.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning Meditation: One will never come to see Dhamma by.
‘One will never come to see Dhamma by means of rational thinking.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
You will discover something that everyone should find in order to not waste this opportunity of having been born.
