‘Those who negate too much fall into nihilism.
Those who negate too little fall into eternalism.’
Nagarjuna
Buddhist Insights
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
Morning Meditation: Imagine what intelligence it takes to ignore reality.
‘Imagine what intelligence it takes to ignore reality and to gradually build up the fantastically complicated structure of personality.’
Francesca Fremantle
Afternoon meditation: Sitting next to a rice basket.
‘Sitting next to a rice basket are innumerable starving people.’
Hsueh Feng
Morning meditation: One of the main practices.
‘One of the main practices of Buddhism is helping others.
A good start is non-harming.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation: Seeing the emptiness of ‘self’.
‘Seeing the emptiness of ‘self’ is not difficult, just investigate the ideas and notions we have around it.’
Everyday Buddhist
