So we have these two extremes — blind faith without enquiry, and enquiry which is no real enquiry at all; it’s just an endless sort of doubt, and still lacks focus…
Buddhist meditation
Human life is extremely hard to find, by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
A blind turtle lives on the ocean bed and surfaces just once every hundred years. A golden yoke floats on the vast ocean, blown here and there by the wind. What are the chances of the turtle surfacing at just the right time and in just the right place to be able to put its head through the yoke?
Meditation and Psychotherapy, by Ajahn Sumedho
The way to liberate the mind is through mindfulness or awareness, and this is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching; this is the important one. It isn’t that people in general are never mindful or always…
The Way of Tea, by Popchong Sunim
Do not gulp the tea but sip it slowly allowing its fragrance to fill one’s mouth. There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind…
Is there any possibility of developing more compassion? By the Dalai Lama
Suppose a person stays in an empty, remote place—just a person alone—very healthy, highly educated, very wise, and physically very strong. As that person lives alone, there’s no possibility of his becoming wealthy or famous; there’s no possibility of his producing good food or building good shelter; he cannot become a hero. All benefits of this worldly life are entirely dependent upon other factors, mainly on other human beings…
The Supreme Teaching is Free
Earnest Zen trainees: Exert yourself in the way that points directly to your original Buddha-nature…
Walking Meditation
Walking is a wonderful way of meditating. It brings one to the point of realising that meditation does not depend upon the position of the body…
All the discourses of the Buddhas and patriarchs are words pointing to the mind
All of you! If you want to return to your homes, simply wake up to your true nature.
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