‘The early Buddhist forest-dwellers saw themselves not as individuals with rigid identities but as part of the interconnected flow of all things, just as impermanent and insubstantial as the trees and rivers around them.’
Everyday Buddhism
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — For those steeped in conventional ideas about teachers.
‘For those steeped in conventional ideas about teachers, doctrines, and spiritual attainment, the Buddha’s self-enlightenment was difficult to grasp.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The past is an idea.
‘The past is an idea.
The future is an idea.
All the time; all the time.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The pleasures we seek are fleeting.
‘The pleasures we seek are fleeting, and the attachments we form inevitably lead to disappointment when they pass away.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — And what, monks, is ageing?
‘And what, monks, is ageing? In whatever beings of whatever group of beings, there is ageing, decrepitude, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, shrinking with age, decay of the sense-faculties—that, monks, is called ageing.’
The Buddha
Morning meditation — When we see through the illusion of self.
‘When we see through the illusion of self, we no longer act out of self-interest but from a place of genuine care for the well-being of others.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Eightfold Path has played such a central role in the evolution of the Buddha’s teaching.
‘The Eightfold Path has played such a central role in the evolution of the Buddha’s teaching and suggests that it may have emerged organically from Shakyamuni Buddha’s own behaviour and life example.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self.
‘The Middle Way is a path that both transcends the self and meets us where we are, offering wisdom and compassion for all stages of the journey.’
Everyday Buddhism
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