‘Remember that calmness and compassion are an important part of living a fruitful, positive human life.’
Dalai Lama
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — Observing these changes.
‘Observing these changes — these never- ceasing transformations — you know that you must perish. But do you also know that when you perish, something in you does not perish with you?’
Surangama Sutra
Morning meditation — In dealing with others.
‘In dealing with others, fairness is paramount; in self-reflection, sincerity is crucial.’
Classic of Spiritual Flight
Morning Meditation — I ask that you watch it carefully.
‘I ask that you watch it carefully, this mind when it’s empty, when it’s not concocting any desires for anything, not wanting pleasure or trying to push away pain.’
Upasika Kee Nanayon
Morning meditation — For us, to be alive is to practise.
‘For us, to be alive is to practise. The question is our very life. If we hold it continuously, this is proof that we are alive.’
Haechun Sunim
Morning meditation — The enlightenment in which you see your true mind.
‘The enlightenment in which you see your true mind and realise your true nature is transmitted outside of the scriptures; it is not based on names and words.’
Bassui Tokushō
Morning meditation — All of these names simply point to the One Mind.
‘All of these names simply point to the One Mind. Though there are ten thousand different names, there are not even two dharma realities.’
Bassui Tokushō
Morning meditation — As soon as any individual has come to perceive the emptiness of things.
‘As soon as any individual has come to perceive the emptiness of things, there arises in that person the realisation that it is not worth getting or being any of those things.’
Bodhidharma
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