‘Followers of the way, there’s no guru anywhere in the world who can match the wisdom of your own mind.’
Zen Graffiti
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — If we contemplate these latest events alone.
‘If we contemplate these latest events alone, we can see that this is a world of suffering, samsara, and we really cannot take refuge in it.’
Diana St Ruth
Morning Meditation: One will never come to see Dhamma by.
‘One will never come to see Dhamma by means of rational thinking.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning meditation — We are powerless to change the past.
‘We are powerless to change the past, but the moment has endless possibilities.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — When the mind is agitated, that is the wrong time to cultivate.
‘When the mind is agitated, that is the wrong time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of investigation-of-states, of energy, of rapture.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — My mind is not concentrated on before or after.
‘My mind is not concentrated on before or after — it’s set free, undirected. I dwell in contemplation of the body, clearly aware. I’m joyful.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — Although their faults are theirs and are not ours.
‘Although their faults are theirs and are not ours, should we discriminate, we too are wrong.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — One of the main props of the anxiety state.
‘One of the main props of the anxiety state is that it pretends to be an immovable state.’
John Aske
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