‘We’ve fallen into existence because of our disregard for cause and effect, so we have to return to a place where we stop the causal mind.’
Motoko Ikebe
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation — Those who are true to the Buddha-dharma.
‘Those who are true to the Buddha-dharma are true to the way of the world.’
Tenkei Zenji
Morning meditation — Because you give these delusions your attention.
‘Because you give these delusions your attention, they keep coming back.’
Motoko Ikebe
Morning Meditaton — To become a great vessel.
‘To become a great vessel, it is important not to put into it any errors of others.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning Meditation — Truth has no history.
‘Truth has no history.’
Seongcheol
Afternoon meditation — Practice just here is not apart from realisation.
‘Practice just here is not apart from realisation. Fortunately, each one of us has individually inherited this wondrous practice.’
Dôgen Zenji
Afternoon meditation — When there is no self.
‘When there is no self there is nothing that is not self.’
Zen master Iida Toin
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
Buddhism now 