‘The teaching grates against our desires.’
Ajahn Chah
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation: Turn Around the Light.
‘Turn around the light to shine within, then just return.
The vast inconceivable source can’t be faced or turned away from.’
Shitou
Morning meditation — A Threefold Practice.
‘Buddhism is a threefold practice: First the study of Dharma, secondly the practise of it, then Buddha sees Dharma.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation: The Mind-Grown.
‘The mind-grown responds to conditions.
Bodhi is only peace.
When there is no obstruction in worldly affairs or principles, then birth is non birth.’
Mazu Daoyi
Morning meditation: Spiritual Powers.
‘If one sits dozing in dullness assuming that maintaining silence is Son (Zen mediation) how can spiritual powers possibly manifest.’‘If one sits dozing in dullness assuming that maintaining silence is Son (Zen mediation) how can spiritual powers possibly manifest.’
Chinul Sunim
Morning meditation: Don’t Grasp.
‘Don’t give rise to the annihilation view; don’t grasp at either voidness or existence.’
Chinul Sunim
Morning meditation — Can you Understand?
‘Can you understand that originally there is no birth or death?’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Letter to a Friend.
‘Many things threaten life, which is even more ephemeral than a bubble of water. Amazing to exhale after inhaling and to awake from sleep.’
Nagarjuna
Buddhism now 