‘Primordial wisdom, silent, glorious, responds to conditions. Cutting off before and after, sense faculties and objects both just happen.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning Meditation — Going along with change and transformation.
‘Going along with change and transformation the whole is not clouded by previous conditions. This is the foundation of great freedom.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation: If it was only a matter of time.
‘If it was only a matter of time, we’d all have been Buddhas long ago.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — It is incorrect to base one’s life upon the fragments of understanding.
‘It is incorrect to base one’s life upon the fragments of understanding which might occur upon reaching certain states.’
Kusan Sunim
Evening meditation — Don’t seek externals.
‘Don’t seek externals, rest in the life of reality.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — Shakyamuni Buddha as is.
‘Only zazen is the real thing — you can’t go wrong. It’s Shakyamuni Buddha as is.’
Katô Kôzan
Morning Meditation — The Great Way has no gate.
‘The Great Way has no gate, a thousand different paths.
If you pass through this gateless gate, you’ll walk freely in the Universe.’
Zen master Mumon
Morning meditation — At that time liking and disliking naturally weaken.
‘At that time liking and disliking naturally weaken, compassion and wisdom naturally clarity, wrong actions naturally cease, meritorious conduct naturally increases.’
Chinul Sunim
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