‘A moment of joy in your heart is being carried away by the wind. Realising this, you’ll no longer be at the mercy of circumstance.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — The Perfect Way.
‘The Perfect Way is difficult only for those who pick and choose.’
Seng-ts’an
Morning meditation — Mind has no form and its awareness no limit.
‘Mind has no form and its awareness no limit. Hence it’s said, “Tathagata forms are endless. And so is awareness”.’
Bodhidharma
Morning Meditation — It is the third and most difficult way.
‘Patience requires us to go beyond the choice between fleeing or fighting. It is the third and most difficult way.’
Corrado Pensa
Morning meditation — Dharma in its essence is pure.
‘Dharma in its essence is pure. Sunyatā (emptiness) is above defilements and attachments, there’s no self, no other.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — The self is like a puppet dancing.
‘The self is like a puppet dancing on the strings of Karma.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — Doing a koan is a bit like.
‘Doing a koan is a bit like being a fly trying to get through an open window.’
Trevor Leggett
Morning meditation — We’ve fallen into existence because.
‘We’ve fallen into existence because of our disregard for cause and effect, so we have to return to a place where we stop the causal mind.’
Motoko Ikebe
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