Chan / Seon / Zen

Morning Meditaton — A moment of anger in your heart.

‘A moment of anger in your heart is burning in fire.
Realising this, you’ll no longer be at the mercy of circumstance.’

Zen Master Rinzai

‘Gain or loss, let me accept the karma as it brings to me the one or the other; the Mind itself knows neither increase nor decrease.’

Bodhidharma

‘A moment of doubt in your heart is being obstructed by earth. Realising this, you’ll no longer be at the mercy of circumstance.’

Zen Master Rinzai

‘The monk should remain deeply introspective, without making any mistake and taste the tea from the place which is both the highest and deepest.’

Sonhae Sunim

‘Understanding life and death — free to come and go—free from fear of death. No need to look for worthiness it will arise of itself.’

Zen Master Rinzai

‘If, in one thought, we suddenly transcend samsara, we can apprehend and defeat the buddhas and patriarchs.’

Kusan Sunim

‘Mind has no form and its awareness no limit. Hence it’s said, “Tathagata forms are endless. And so is awareness”’.

Bodhidharma

‘Attaching to emptiness, denying cause and effect, brings calamities beyond measure. Rejecting existence and grasping emptiness is same mistake’

Yung Chia