‘Bodhi has always existed;
No need to preserve it.
Vexation has never existed,
No need to eliminate it.’
Niutou Farong
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — Past, future, and present Buddhas.
‘Past, future, and present Buddhas — All are the same. They reveal the wisdom of the path, Never having seen defilement.’
Avaivartikacakra sūtra
Morning meditation — The “Great Matter” is being awake.
‘The “Great Matter” is being awake. At its deepest level, being unawake is Dukkha — suffering.’
Everyday Buddhism
Evening meditation — If the Way’s deep nature is misconceived.
‘If the Way’s deep nature is misconceived, striving for tranquillity is vain.’
Seng-ts’an
Morning Meditation — Even when one is tramping along dark roads.
‘Even when one is tramping along dark roads,
Those roads are themselves the Lotus Land.
This is more than sufficient for rejoicing and praise.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning meditation — When you do zazen for awhile.
‘When you do zazen for awhile, you come to see that all there is is that little shadow of a perception which has nothing to do with your thoughts; and just being able to see that, you are brought to a point of freedom from suffering.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — It is only because sentient beings mistakenly cling to having a mind.
‘Knowing mind as no-mind, neither ill nor medicine.
In confused times all matters, though troubling, are not different.
Originally nothing 0to grasp, why then use remedies?
Though magic shows exist, they’re empty appearances.’
Zen Master Niutou
Morning meditation — What is mind?
‘Q: What is mind? How can I put my mind at peace?
A: You must neither postulate a mind, nor try to compel a state of peace. That is what is called peace.
The Treatise on No-Mind.‘
Zen Master Niutou
Buddhism now 