‘One should not be afraid of rising thoughts but only of the delay in being aware of them.’
Master Hsu Yun
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning Meditation — If the hua tou (koan) is properly looked after.
‘If the hua tou (koan) is properly looked after, training will become easier and former habits will be brought automatically to an end.’
Master Hsu Yun
Morning meditation: The successive Buddhas and Patriarchs.
‘The successive Buddhas and Patriarchs were all seekers of the Way.’
Dôgen Zenji
Morning meditation: Absence of thought.
‘Absence of thought, always knowing, always awake.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning Meditation — In one instant, as it is.
‘In one instant, as it is, is an infinite number of kalpas.
An infinite number of kalpas are at the same time this one instant.
If you see into this fact,
The True Self which is seeing has been seen into.’
Zen master Mumon
Afternoon meditation — The Way is not a matter of knowing or not knowing.
‘The Way is not a matter of knowing or not knowing. Just abandon everything, return to yourself, and look within. Who is this? Spare no time.’
Bassui Tokushō
Morning meditation: Group meditation is where.
‘Group meditation is where we sit together, suffer together, and awaken together.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — A follower of the way.
‘A follower of the way shouldn’t be a person of the way.’
ManGong
Buddhism now 