‘You need self-confidence and determination; feeling depressed and losing hope will never help to improve any situation.’
Dalai Lama
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — To cultivate virtue.
‘To cultivate virtue, one must start by controlling oneself; to cultivate wisdom, one must begin with clarity of thought.’
Classic of Spiritual Flight
Morning meditation — If you physically want to build a pyramid, the base must be very strong.
‘I would now like to refer again to this idea of the pyramid regarding morality (shila), wisdom, and meditation (or concentration). If you physically want to build a pyramid, the base must be very strong.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
Morning meditation — You must just be as immovable as an incense burner.
‘You must just be as immovable as an incense burner before a Buddha-image and as unchanging as dried wood resting on cold ashes.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness.
‘The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness are unsatisfactory, they have the same value.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — The outflow of ignorance is perhaps the most fundamental.
‘Avijjāsava – The outflow of ignorance is perhaps the most fundamental, as it is the source of all other āsavas. It is the veil that clouds our awareness, causing us to misperceive reality and to cling to a distorted view of self and world.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — By relinquishing attachment and seeing things.
‘By relinquishing attachment and seeing things as they truly are, we can free ourselves from the cycle of craving and dissatisfaction.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning Meditaton — Buddha appeared in the world.
‘Followers of the way, Buddha appeared in the world, turned the wheel of Dharma, and then entered Nirvana.’
Zen Master Rinzai
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