For the first time, I realised the meaning of the words: ‘The eighteen great enlightenments of wonderful joy, and the little joys which are without number.’ In truth, I have not been deceived.
Zen Master Hakuin
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation — Forty-eight Years!
‘Forty-eight years! 48 years! I’m all done with the ignorant and wise I am no hero My way to Nirvana is serene and peaceful.’
Zen master Tosotsu’s last poem in 1091
Morning Meditation: In One Instant.
‘In one instant infinite numbers of kalpas are realised.
There is no leaving, no coming, and no abiding.’
Kegon-kyo
Morning Meditation — Dwelling in Peace.
‘Dwelling in peace and forgetting hardship, let go of adornments and become genuine.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation: Turn Around the Light.
‘Turn around the light to shine within, then just return.
The vast inconceivable source can’t be faced or turned away from.’
Shitou
Morning meditation: The Mind-Grown.
‘The mind-grown responds to conditions.
Bodhi is only peace.
When there is no obstruction in worldly affairs or principles, then birth is non birth.’
Mazu Daoyi
Morning meditation: Spiritual Powers.
‘If one sits dozing in dullness assuming that maintaining silence is Son (Zen mediation) how can spiritual powers possibly manifest.’‘If one sits dozing in dullness assuming that maintaining silence is Son (Zen mediation) how can spiritual powers possibly manifest.’
Chinul Sunim
Morning meditation: Don’t Grasp.
‘Don’t give rise to the annihilation view; don’t grasp at either voidness or existence.’
Chinul Sunim
