‘Make the universe your shrine room. Make this place your meditation mat.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Buddhism
Morning Meditation: Keeping precepts.
‘Keeping precepts results in a good rebirth, making offerings results in future blessings — but not buddha.’
Bodhidharma
Morning Meditation: Imagine what intelligence it takes to ignore reality.
‘Imagine what intelligence it takes to ignore reality and to gradually build up the fantastically complicated structure of personality.’
Francesca Fremantle
Morning Meditation — The mind of one person.
‘The mind of one person is the mind of all people.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning Meditation: People who don’t see their nature.
‘People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are foolish.’
Bodhidharma
Buddha Nature, by Khenpo Sherab Sangpo
Our buddha nature is the innermost nature of the mind.
Morning Meditation: As long as you’re subject to birth and death.
‘As long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain awakening.’
Bodhidharma
Morning Meditation: There’s no advantage.
‘There’s no advantage in deceiving yourself.’
Bodhidharma
Buddhism now 