‘When mental processes arise, all dharmas [things] spring forth; when mental processes cease, all dharmas cease likewise.’
The Buddha
Texts
Buddhist Texts.
Morning Meditation — Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory.
‘The Buddha’s path is one that must be lived. As we live it, our practice becomes the vessel that carries us forward, and with each moment of awareness, we touch upon the truth the Buddha himself encountered under the Bodhi tree.’
Buddha
Sutra in 42 Sections
Morning Meditation — Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame.
‘Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labours are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted.’
Buddha
Sutra in 42 Sections
Morning Meditation — Look up to the heavens or down upon the earth and they will teach you impermanence.
‘Look up to the heavens or down upon the earth and they will teach you impermanence. Look around the world and it too reveals impermanence. Yet when you attain spiritual enlightenment, true wisdom arises. That wisdom swiftly guides you to the Way.’
Buddha
Sutra in 42 Sections
Morning Meditation — It’s hard to attain the state where nothing is practised.
‘It’s hard to attain the state where nothing is practised and nothing manifested.’
Buddha
Sutra in 42 Sections
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 — All conditioned things are not-self.
‘All conditioned things are not-self’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — The person who has no preferences.
‘The person who has no preferences and has overcome all views, what would he be attached to in the world?’
Alagaddupama Sutta
Buddhism now 