‘The aim of spiritual practice is to become the friend of all beings, concerned about them and ready and able to help them.’
Dalai Lama
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara.
‘One develops compassion for the beings in Samsara, avoids defilement and rejoices in virtue.’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation — Be aware these five hindrances.
‘Be aware these five hindrances steal away virtue: restlessness and worry, aversion, sloth and torpor, attachment, and doubt.’
Arya Nagarjuna
Morning Meditation — Because you’ve little faith.
‘Followers of the way, because you’ve little faith, you run about seeking your head which you think you’ve lost.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning meditation — Our minds and Shakyamuni’s are inseparable.
‘Our minds and Shakyamuni’s are inseparable — only the thoughts are different.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation: When we sit in zazen.
‘When we sit in zazen, all sorts of thoughts come and go that cannot be labelled delusion, confusion, or satori.’
Harada Sekkei Roshi
Morning meditation — The real suffering is not the sound.
‘The real suffering is not the sound of the cement mixer, but the stuff you create in your own mind—that is what dukkha is.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning Meditation — I want to repeat over and over.
‘So I want to repeat over and over again: Do not be careless.’
Zen Master Hakuin
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