Buddha is the quality of awareness that observes without judgement, the compassion that arises naturally when we let go of our self-centred views.
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Buddha often compared the process of awakening.
‘Buddha often compared the process of awakening to uncovering a hidden treasure or cleansing a soiled garment. The treasure is already there; the garment is already pure. We need only remove the layers that conceal them.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Buddha’s teaching offers both a warning and a promise.
‘The Buddha’s teaching offers both a warning and a promise: the warning that no external search will ever bring us to the end of suffering, and the promise that the end of suffering can indeed be realised — right here, in this very life.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Buddha is not something to be attained.
‘Buddha is not something to be attained but something to be realised in the very fabric of our daily lives.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The brightness of awareness is not an intellectual understanding.
‘The brightness of awareness is not an intellectual understanding, but an experiential clarity — an ability to see things as they truly are, in the present moment, without the filters of desire, fear, or ignorance.’
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Morning meditation — Compassion that arises naturally.
‘Buddha is the quality of awareness that observes without judgement, the compassion that arises naturally when we let go of our self-centred views, the wisdom that knows the impermanence and interdependence of all things.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — To be unaware is to suffer.
‘To be unaware is to suffer. Not knowing the nature of things, not seeing reality as it truly is (yathābhūta), binds us to a world of illusion.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — There is no need to be disappointed or annoyed.
‘There is no need to be disappointed or annoyed about being drawn away from the main subject of Buddhist meditation.’
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