‘Just listening to the Dharma rain.’
Zen Graffiti
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — Don’t make decisions on the strength of desires.
‘Don’t make decisions on the strength of desires. Desires can puff us up into thinking we are something we’re not.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Buddha isn’t one sided.
‘Buddha isn’t one sided. The nature of mind is basically empty, neither pure nor impure. Free of both practise and realisation.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — Buddhas don’t practise nonsense.
‘Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause and effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practise nonsense.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — Nature of mind is basically empty.
‘Nature of mind is basically empty, neither pure nor impure Free of both practise and realisation.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — If there were no unborn-unconditioned.
‘There’s a unborn unbecome unmade unconditioned. If there were no unborn-unconditioned, no escape would be possible from the born.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — Don’t invite the future.
‘Don’t invite the future.’
Words of my Perfect Teacher
Morning meditation — Even if you explain 1000s of sutras.
‘Even if you explain 1000s of sutras and shastras, unless you see your nature, yours is the teaching of a mortal, not a Buddha.’
Bodhidharma
Buddhism now 