‘Once we express our views, hopes, and beliefs, the argument starts, and tears start flowing.’
Ayya Khema
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — The ‘flower’ of dharma.
‘Having intuitively grasped the ‘flower’ of dharma we are bound to reap the fruit of awakening.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation: It’s quite amusing and sad that most people.
‘It’s quite amusing and sad that most people seem to wander through life in a little cloud, as if nothing were wrong.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant.
‘Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant consciousness conditioned by the circumstances in which one is enmeshed.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — The indissoluble union of voidness and compassion.
‘The indissoluble union of voidness (sunyara) and compassion (karuna) is called ‘mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta). Sekoddeśa’
Tsongkhapa
Morning Meditation — There’s an old Zen saying.
There’s an old Zen saying; ‘Each time it’s presented, each time it’s new’.
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning meditation: To realise we are always in the present.
‘To realise we are always in the present is the most wonderful thing.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation: If you still do not know your Original-face.
‘If you still do not know your Original-face after you’ve worn out your straw sandals, where are you going to search?’
Chih Fei Tzu
Buddhism now 