‘If you do zazen, you get to see for yourself that things just arise in your perception; where they begin and where they end you cannot know.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Chan / Seon / Zen
Morning meditation — Prajna comes from the Essence of Mind and not from an exterior source.
‘Learned Audience, all Prajna comes from the Essence of Mind and not from an exterior source. Have no mistaken notion about that. This is called ‘Self-use of the True Nature’. Once the Tathata (Suchness) is known, one will be free from delusion forever.’
Hui Neng
Morning Meditation — If you see into this fact.
‘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
Morning Meditation — Deep existence is beyond forms.
‘Deep existence is beyond forms, wisdom illuminates the inside of the circle. Inside the circle the self vanishes, neither existent nor nonexistent.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning Meditation — Nothing is gained by speaking.
‘The motto for becoming genuine: nothing is gained by speaking. The goodness of Vimalakirti enters the gate of nonduality.’
Hongzhi Zhengjue
Morning meditation — When we see the goodness or the badness of other people.
‘When we see the goodness or the badness of other people we are not attracted by it, nor repelled by it, nor attached to it; so that our attitude of mind is as void as space. In this way, we say our mind is great.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — If intense cold strikes not to the bone.
‘If intense cold strikes not to the bone, how can plum blossom be fragrant?’
Huang Po
Morning meditation — For those who do not know their own mind.
‘When you hear me talk about the Void, do not at once fall into the idea of vacuity. It is of the utmost importance that we should not fall into this idea, because when a man sits quietly and keeps his mind blank he will abide in a state of ‘‘Voidness of Indifference’’.’
Hui Neng
