‘Don’t be deluded by anyone, this is all I teach. If you want to make use of it, then use it right now without doubt or delay.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Buddhist Insights
Morning Meditaton —Be your ordinary selves with nothing to seek.
‘Be your ordinary selves with nothing to seek, relieving nature, wearing robes, eat, when tired sleep fools laugh, the wise understand.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning Meditaton — Don’t be deceived.
‘Don’t be deceived. If you only think of seeking Buddha, Buddha becomes a mere name. The one who seeks Buddha, do you know him?’
Zen Master Rinzai
Afternoon meditation — If intense cold strikes not to the bone.
‘If intense cold strikes not to the bone, how can plum blossom be fragrant?’
Huang Po
Morning meditation: When we go against the way.
‘When we go against the way, we get swept along by the sea of karma vipāka.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Emotions can be very convincing.
‘Emotions can be very convincing, very powerful, like a melodrama. They can sound real and true when they’re going on.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — If you only believe that Buddha.
‘If you only believe that Buddha speaks no words. Then the Lotus will blossom in your mouth.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation: Words of love.
‘Words of love are not always kindly words.’
Zen master Iida Toin
Buddhism now 