‘A water bird comes and goes, leaving no traces at all. Yet it knows how to go its own way.‘
Mumonkan
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation — Don’t seek externals.
‘Don’t seek externals, rest in the life of reality.’
Zen Graffiti
Morning meditation — Bodhi has always existed.
‘Bodhi has always existed;
No need to preserve it.
Vexation has never existed,
No need to eliminate it.’
Niutou Farong
Morning meditation — Between mind and mind there is no gap.
‘Between mind and mind there is no gap.
They all flow into the sea of original nature.’
Nan-yüan
Morning meditation — Sages seek from mind and not from the Buddha.
‘Sages seek from mind and not from the Buddha, whereas those who seek from the Buddha and not from mind are fools!’
Zen Master Hui Hai
Morning meditation – A Buddha is a person without ego-self.
‘In terms of a human being, a Buddha is a person without ego-self. This means that for sentient beings there is no centre or self-nature. In Buddhism, this is explained as the law of causality.’
Harada Sekkei Roshi
Morning meditation — One comes across a weed.
‘One comes across a weed, and it turns out to be an orchid.’
Zen Master Yunmen
Morning meditation — Thoughts arise and pass away.
‘Thoughts arise and pass away,
The preceding no different from the succeeding.
If the succeeding thought does not arise,
The preceding thought cuts itself off.’
Niutou Farong
Buddhism now 