‘I advise you to remain uniformly quiescent and above all activity.’
Huang Po
Chan / Seon / Zen
Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. Trevor Leggett.
Leave your innumerable knowing and seeings and understandings, and go to that greatness of space.
Morning meditation — Form exists because the mind produces it.
‘Form exists because the mind produces it; void (Sunyatā) exists because of that which cannot be perceived.’
Shen Hui
Morning meditation — Buddha said people are deluded.
‘Buddha said people are deluded. This Is why they fall into the river of endless rebirth. All because they don’t see their nature.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — By mistakenly clinging to the appearance.
‘By mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things you lose the Way. Everything comes from mind, don’t become attached.’
Bodhidharma
Afternoon meditation — A static condition is not the right zazen.
‘A static condition is not the right zazen.’
Rindo Fujimoto Roshi
Morning meditation — Nature is mind. Mind is our nature.
‘Nature is mind. Mind is our nature. This nature is mind of all Buddhas. Buddhas of the past and future only transmit this mind.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — It’s bad enough to blunder from not knowing.
‘It’s bad enough to blunder from not knowing the meaning of the Law, how much worse would it be to encourage others to follow suit?’
Hui Neng
Buddhism now 