‘This is the Buddha’s firm and unshakeable awareness that watches over and protects the mind.’
Ajahn Chah
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind.
‘You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind and compare it with what comes up. If you have a shadow of something, can you hold onto that shadow? All of your perceptions, as they arise like shadows, have nothing for you to hold on to.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — The mind can be focused on one thing.
‘The mind can be focused on one thing — on the body, the breath, or whatever — without there being any obstacles like distraction or dullness.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — Fools think they harm themselves.
‘Fools think they harm themselves by putting others first.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Awareness does not belong to anyone.
‘Awareness does not belong to anyone; it is not ‘my’ awareness or ‘your’ awareness. It is vast, boundless, and ever-present, beyond the categories of self and other.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — It might be pure meditation or concentration.
‘It might be pure meditation or concentration (shamatha), but without the ethical base, there will be no substance to it.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it.
‘Manjushri: If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it. But I do not strive after enlightenment, because enlightenment is just the same thing as this Manjushri, the Crown Prince.’
Prajnaparamita
In the heart of the Buddha’s teachings lies a profound caution.
The danger is that insights, once grasped, can easily harden into words.
Buddhism now 