‘Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant consciousness conditioned by the circumstances in which one is enmeshed.’
Kusan Sunim
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation: If you still do not know your Original-face.
‘If you still do not know your Original-face after you’ve worn out your straw sandals, where are you going to search?’
Chih Fei Tzu
Morning meditation: It doesn’t cost any money.
‘It doesn’t cost any money to be mindful.’
Kōshō Uchiyama
Morning meditation: If you talk too much.
‘If you talk too much, the universe begins to yawn.’
Zen master Iida
Morning Meditation: Keeping precepts.
‘Keeping precepts results in a good rebirth, making offerings results in future blessings — but not buddha.’
Bodhidharma
Afternoon meditation: Sitting next to a rice basket.
‘Sitting next to a rice basket are innumerable starving people.’
Hsueh Feng
Morning meditation: The whole world is you.
‘The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking that there is something else.’
Xuefeng
Morning Meditation: People who don’t see their nature.
‘People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are foolish.’
Bodhidharma
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