When minding about the future ceases of itself, it can be said that there is no future.
Chan / Seon / Zen
Happy New Year everyone. — Whatever is in the future is not here yet.
‘Whatever is in the future is not here yet, so do not direct your hopes and longings towards it; for, when minding about the future ceases of itself, it can be said that there is no future.’
Hui Hai
Morning Meditation — Ordinary Mind is Tao.
‘Ordinary Mind is Tao. Hundreds of flowers in spring, the moon in autumn.’
Zen Comments on the Mumonkan.
Morning meditation — The highest principle cannot be explained.
‘The highest principle cannot be explained;
It is neither free nor bound.
Lively and attuned to everything,
It is always right before you.’
Niutou Farong
Morning meditation — A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.
‘A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Asked why he wore such a large hat.
Asked why he wore such a large hat, Zen master Huang Po replied, ‘because it has to cover the myriad worlds.’
Huang Po
Morning meditation: Today is Rohatsu – the Zen Buddhist day celebrating the Buddha’s enlightenment.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Zen Buddhism
Morning meditation — The enlightenment in which you see your true mind.
‘The enlightenment in which you see your true mind and realise your true nature is transmitted outside of the scriptures; it is not based on names and words.’
Bassui Tokushō
Buddhism now 