‘The complaining mind, the critical mind, the always wanting something you don’t have, or not being content with what you do have, is dukkha.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — The notion of self drives all sorts of views.
‘The notion of self drives all sorts of views and opinions about birth and death.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — One of the first insights of the Buddha.
‘Anicca: Lit. not-eternal. One of the first insights of the Buddha “all that arises ceases”, are not reality, not nirvana, not liberation.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Kindness and the good heart.
‘Kindness and the good heart are important at the beginning, in the middle and at the end.’
Dalai Lama
Morning meditation — What place do dreams have.
‘What place do dreams have within the dream?’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — To get an inkling of voidness liberation.
‘To get an inkling of voidness liberation, we can deliberately empty the mind of all it contains.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation — Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration.
‘Empty awareness free from conceptual elaboration is a luminous glow beyond clarity or obscuration that pervades all samsara and nirvana.’
Sera Khandro
Morning Meditation — When we are happy.
‘When we are happy we usually do not want to hear anything about detachment.’
Francesca Fremantle
Buddhism now 