‘Emptiness is without characteristics. Illumination has no emotional afflictions.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation — Don’t Labour with Complexities.
‘Don’t labour with complexities, nor dwell in inner silence; let pure awareness occupy the mind and thoughts will vanish by themselves.’
Seng-ts’an
Morning Meditation — Having turned yourself around.
‘Straightforwardly abandon stratagems and take on responsibility. Having turned yourself around, accept your situation.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation — Enlightenment and Delusion never Existed.
‘Enlightenment and delusion never existed at the start. They’re ideas that you picked up, things your parents never taught.’
Bankei
Morning meditation: This is the Self Before.
‘This is the self before something runs through our consciousness.’
Katagiri Roshi
Morning meditation — The Way is a Fundamental Part.
‘The way is a fundamental part of everybody. Its essence is to penetrate Enlightenment and to leave no trace of this attainment.’
Bassui Tokushō
Morning meditation — Don’t Hate the Arising of Thoughts.
‘Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that arise. Just realise that our original mind is beyond thought.’
Bankei
Morning meditation — When you see the Moon.
‘When you see the moon yourself, you realise there is no moon to point to after all.’
Bassui Tokushō
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