‘Even when living in the common world, if you don’t become attached to worldly things, you can become your true self.’
Beopjeong Sunim
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation — If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas.
‘Again I ask you, can you fully comprehend the Unmoving Ground you were originally endowed with before your parents gave birth to you? If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the three time-periods.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Whether we know it or not.
‘Whether we know it or not, this life is an abundant treasure house.’
Taizan Maezumi Roshi
Morning meditation — Our bodies do not belong to us.
‘Our bodies do not belong to us. They are the true activity of the life of the great universe.’
Dôgen Zenji
Morning meditation — Buddhas and sentient beings.
‘Followers of the way Buddhas and sentient beings are not two.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — If you attain anything at all.
‘Followers of the way: If you attain anything at all, it’s conditional, it’s karmic. It turns the Wheel birth And death.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — The sutras say.
‘The sutras say, ‘‘People should realise that the buddha-nature is something they have always had’’.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — We often call these things the defilements.
‘We often call these things the defilements, but we can see that they are just instincts which are out of control.’
Bodhidharma
