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.
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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.
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
Morning meditation: What is the resort of Nibbana?
‘‘‘Then, good Gotama, what is the resort of Nibbana?’’
‘‘That question goes too far Brahman. No answer can encompass it.’’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation — Good Gotama [Buddha], what is mind’s resort?
‘‘Good Gotama [Buddha], what is mind’s resort?’’
‘‘Mind’s resort, Brahman, is mindfulness.’’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
What is the Desire-Image Samadhi?
Although those who fear desire
Rack their brains seeking liberation from it,
It remains forever intrinsically pure.
Morning meditation — Those who cross this teeming sea.
‘Those who cross this teeming sea, hard with mighty waves.
Wisdom’s theirs the holy life lived, world’s end reached, gone beyond.’
Samyutta
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