‘Morning Meditation: When there is non-thinking, it is often not noticed.’
Everyday Buddhism
Buddhist Insights
The Buddha and the Swan.
A flock of wild swans passed, voyaging north.
Morning meditation — Knowledge and Ignorance are Both.
‘Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion. The nonduality of true and untrue, that’s the state of buddha.’
Longchenpa
Morning meditation: I’m Sure You Know.
‘I’m sure you know that many meditators and Zen masters get their insights during everyday life or in walking meditation after sitting.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Meditation Techniques Are Easy.
‘Meditation techniques are easy to practise because they have a form. Awareness is harder because it has no form.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation: A Beginner to Buddhist practice.
‘A beginner to Buddhist practice has more chance of awakening than someone who thinks they know it all.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — When you feel a certain way.
‘Papañca — is when you feel a certain way and your thoughts just go on and on without any direction, simply rattling on, one thought after another.’
Everyday Buddhism
The Embossed Tea Kettle: Orate Gama and other works of Hakuin Zenji
For the first time, I realised the meaning of the words: ‘The eighteen great enlightenments of wonderful joy, and the little joys which are without number.’ In truth, I have not been deceived.
Zen Master Hakuin
Buddhism now 