Joy is not something we can grasp and hold on to, it comes and goes like spring rain, softening everything.
Buddhism
Morning Meditation: Mind doesn’t appear as.
‘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
Morning Meditation: Don’t use Buddha.
‘Don’t use Buddha to worship a Buddha.’
Bodhidharma
Fear of the Dark, and the Adventure. It’s like this. By John Aske.
As for the hopes and fears for the future, and the regrets, they are all part of a framing of our lives into a fixed dance, so to speak.
Morning Meditation: Mind Through Endless Kalpas.
‘Mind through endless kalpas without beginning, has never varied. It has never lived or died, appeared or disappeared, increased or decreased.’
Bodhidharma
Morning Meditation: Don’t use Buddha.
‘Don’t use Buddha to worship a Buddha.’
Bodhidharma
I Don’t Believe in Samsara — If I Did…
When I just rest
within empty lucidity,
the false cavern of all things of samsara and nirvana implodes,
and everything dawns as the ornamentation of ultimate reality.
Morning Meditation: Buddhas vary, but none leave.
‘Buddhas vary, but none leave their own mind. The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible.’
Bodhidharma
Buddhism now 