Buddhist Insights

Morning meditation — Realise that the world is going to be this way.

‘Realise that the world is going to be this way, that there is always going to be something you don’t like.’

Ajahn Sumedho

‘Understanding life and death — free to come and go—free from fear of death. No need to look for worthiness it will arise of itself.’

Zen Master Rinzai

‘If, in one thought, we suddenly transcend samsara, we can apprehend and defeat the buddhas and patriarchs.’

Kusan Sunim

‘Mind has no form and its awareness no limit. Hence it’s said, “Tathagata forms are endless. And so is awareness”’.

Bodhidharma

‘Attaching to emptiness, denying cause and effect, brings calamities beyond measure. Rejecting existence and grasping emptiness is same mistake’

Yung Chia

‘The real function of zazen is not to rest the mind but to establish a base or foundation for it.’

Rindo Fujimoto Roshi

‘Awakening is the very core of the Buddha’s teaching, but if we’re thinking about awakening we’re separating ourselves from it.’

Taizan Maezumi Roshi

‘When freed from selfishness our mind is the mind of Buddha — delusion is transformed into the four wisdoms of Buddha.’

Everyday Buddhism