‘It doesn’t cost any money to be mindful.’
Kōshō Uchiyama
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva.
‘Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva; but first of all you should engage in the practice of purifying the mind.’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation: If you talk too much.
‘If you talk too much, the universe begins to yawn.’
Zen master Iida
Morning Meditation — Make the universe your shrine room.
‘Make the universe your shrine room. Make this place your meditation mat.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning meditation — Those who negate too much.
‘Those who negate too much fall into nihilism.
Those who negate too little fall into eternalism.’
Nagarjuna
Morning Meditation: Keeping precepts.
‘Keeping precepts results in a good rebirth, making offerings results in future blessings — but not buddha.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha.
‘Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha to ward off the adherence to a self on the part of those who have gone astray through views and of those who seek the view of self.’
Vajrapanjara
Morning meditation: There’s no minimum practice in Buddhism.
‘There’s no minimum practice in Buddhism’
Everyday Buddhist
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