‘Whatever is in the future is not here yet, so do not direct your hopes and longings towards it; for, when minding about the future ceases of itself, it can be said that there is no future.’
Hui Hai
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning Meditation — Ordinary Mind is Tao.
‘Ordinary Mind is Tao. Hundreds of flowers in spring, the moon in autumn.’
Zen Comments on the Mumonkan.
Morning meditation — The highest principle cannot be explained.
‘The highest principle cannot be explained;
It is neither free nor bound.
Lively and attuned to everything,
It is always right before you.’
Niutou Farong
Morning meditation — A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.
‘A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Asked why he wore such a large hat.
Asked why he wore such a large hat, Zen master Huang Po replied, ‘because it has to cover the myriad worlds.’
Huang Po
Morning meditation: Today is Rohatsu – the Zen Buddhist day celebrating the Buddha’s enlightenment.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Zen Buddhism
Morning meditation — The enlightenment in which you see your true mind.
‘The enlightenment in which you see your true mind and realise your true nature is transmitted outside of the scriptures; it is not based on names and words.’
Bassui Tokushō
Morning meditation — Once you see, after clarifying your true nature.
‘Once you see, after clarifying your true nature, all words return to the self like waves by the thousands returning to the sea.’
Bassui Tokushō
Buddhism now 