‘If someone asks me about Bodhi, I respond by showing a state of pure mystery.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — Awareness isn’t personal.
‘Awareness isn’t personal. The idea that we are not aware and need to develop awareness, is in itself a creation.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning Meditaton — And if someone questions me on Nirvana.
‘And if someone questions me on Nirvana, I show a state of quiet calm.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning Meditaton — True understanding.
‘True understanding — if you have genuine insight, birth and death will not affect you, and you will be free to come and to go.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Afternoon meditation — Once we penetrate to the truth.
‘Once we penetrate to the truth, we are freed from everything. Only peace remains.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Buddha was a conscious individual human.
‘Buddha was a conscious individual human being not lost in delusion or the conditioning of his mind.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning Meditaton — What students of the Way need.
‘What students of the Way need is self-reliance don’t search outside, all is idle dust, and you cannot discern the false from the true.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning meditation — All things arise dependently from causes.
‘All things arise dependently from causes. They neither existent nor nonexistent. Are without self experiencer or doer.’
Kusan Sunim
Buddhism now 