‘Having transcended all conceptual views, being pure and peaceful within, well liberated and independent, one goes beyond all attachment.’
The Buddha
Udāna Sutra
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Just as the great ocean has one taste.
‘Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so too this Dhamma-Vinaya has one taste, the taste of liberation.’
The Buddha
Udāna Sutra
Morning meditation — This freedom is the end of suffering.
‘This freedom is the end of suffering, not because pain and pleasure cease to exist, but because the mind no longer clings to them. It sees them as they are: passing phenomena within a vast field of awareness.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Buddha often compared his teachings to a raft.
‘Buddha is not something to be attained but something to be realised in the very fabric of our daily lives.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — As our awareness grows.
‘As our awareness grows, the shadows of delusion fade, not by force but by the simple presence of light, revealing reality as it is — open, boundless, and free from obscuration.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Rather than searching for a distant place.
‘Rather than searching for a distant place where suffering does not exist, the Buddha invites us to investigate the nature of suffering itself, right here in the present.’
Everyday Buddhism
People think that the gift of the gab and being smart, are signs of wisdom, by Hakuin Zenji
The Buddhist world is now filled with people of their sort.
Morning meditation — Buddhists are people and people do believe things.
‘Buddhists are people and people do believe things, but Buddhism is concerned with truth, not with belief, and the teaching is to see things as they are.’
Everyday Buddhism
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