‘Everything exists — this is one extreme. Nothing exists — this is the other extreme. Avoiding both, the Tathagata teaches the Middle Way.’
Samyutta Nikaya
Buddhist
Morning meditation — A Tathagata appears in the world.
‘A Tathagata appears in the world, fully awakened, and teaches Dharma (truth) wonderful in its beginning, wonderful in its middle, and wonderful in its end.’
Alagaddupama Sutta
Morning meditation — In the seen, only the seen.
‘In the seen, only the seen.
In the heard, only the heard.
In the sensed, only the sensed.
In the cognised, only the cognised.
Then, Bāhiya, there will be no ‘’you” in connection with that.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — The wise are not affected by praise or blame.
‘Just as a rock is not shaken by a storm, the wise are not affected by praise or blame.’
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Yet there no darkness reigns.
‘Where neither water nor yet earth Nor fire nor air gain a foothold, There gleam no stars, no sun sheds light, There shines no moon, yet there no darkness reigns.’
Bahiya Sutta
Morning meditation — The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers.
‘The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — Depending upon these manifestations of the mind.
‘The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself.’
The Buddha
Old age and personality, by Ajahn Sumedho.
Ajahn Sumedho explores old age and personality from a meditive persective.
