‘Don’t be deluded by anyone, this is all I teach. If you want to make use of it, then use it right now without doubt or delay.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning Meditation — How to sit in meditation.
‘How to sit in meditation, no one knows. The solitary moon shines on the icy pool, but in the pool there is no moon.’
Han Shan
Morning meditation: Please be the moment ‘now’.
‘Please be the moment ‘now’ as-it-is, not only with zazen in the zendo, but in all activities throughout the day.’
Harada Sekkei Roshi
Afternoon meditation — In practice / enlightenment of the Buddha.
Afternoon meditation — In practice / enlightenment of the Buddha.
Dôgen Zenji
Morning Meditation — Utter emptiness has no image.
‘Utter emptiness has no image, upright independence does not rely on anything.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation — In one sense.
‘In one sense, human history feels like a history of ownership.’
Beopjeong Sunim
Evening Meditation — Like a mirror reflecting a mirror.
‘Patch-robed monks practise thoroughly without carrying a single thread. Open sparkling and pure, they’re like a mirror reflecting a mirror.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning Meditation — Primordial wisdom, silent, glorious.
‘Primordial wisdom, silent, glorious, responds to conditions. Cutting off before and after, sense faculties and objects both just happen.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Buddhism now 