‘Even bad thoughts or horrible thoughts arise and cease, just like good thoughts.’
Everyday Buddhist
Buddhist Insights
Morning Meditation — Our purpose is to be clear about birth and death.
‘Our purpose is to be clear about birth and death and to attain Buddhahood. To be clear we must have recourse to this hua t’ou (koan).’
Master Hsu Yun
Morning meditation — Once the illusory nature is seen in actuality.
‘Once the illusory nature is seen in actuality, then the solid character that we have attached to what we experience, simply vanishes.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Afternoon meditation: Peace comes from doing things.
‘Peace comes from doing things completely with our whole body and mind.’
Everyday Buddhist
Afternoon meditation — We cannot bring back the past.
‘We cannot bring back the past or guarantee the future.’
ManGong
Morning meditation — If only beings would recognise.
‘If only beings would recognise their own true face as that of the Tathagata whom they so eagerly seek.’
Shen Hui
Morning meditation — Once we express our views.
‘Once we express our views, hopes, and beliefs, the argument starts, and tears start flowing.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation — The ‘flower’ of dharma.
‘Having intuitively grasped the ‘flower’ of dharma we are bound to reap the fruit of awakening.’
Hui Neng
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