‘Open your eyes and look! What is Shakyamuni? And what are we? We shall see the inexpressible mind-nature, enlightened and complete calm, seeing nothing, doing nothing.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — We cannot see our next rebirth.
‘What comes after death is not clear to us right now, because we cannot see our next rebirth.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — The aim of spiritual practice is to become.
‘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
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
