The Sutta-nipata is one of the earliest texts of the Pali cannon, coming from the same period as the Dhammapada, before the monastic tradition was strong.
Buddhist
In the heart of the Buddha’s teachings lies a profound caution.
The danger is that insights, once grasped, can easily harden into words.
Morning meditation — In this very fathom-long body.
‘In this very fathom-long body, along with its perception and mind, I declare the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.’
The Buddha
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This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. The Buddha’s method—neither striving too hard nor being completely passive—illustrates the Middle Way.
Crossing the Flood.
This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. The Buddha’s method—neither striving too hard nor being completely passive—illustrates the Middle Way.
Thinking makes it so, by Ajahn Sumedho.
Exploring the Unborn.
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 — What is the resort of mindfulness?
‘‘‘Good Gotama [Buddha], what is the resort of mindfulness?’’
‘The resort of mindfulness, Brahman, is liberation.’’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
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