‘The Buddhist practice of Metta, or loving-kindness, is much deeper than just having nice ideas and good thoughts.’
Everyday Buddhist
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Buddha’s teaching was given to help people find true happiness.
‘Buddha’s teaching was given to help people find true happiness by putting an end to suffering. True happiness is attained by doing certain things and leaving certain things undone. The following has been adapted from various sources on how to tread the Buddhist path.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — One of the deepest Buddhist teachings.
‘Anicca: not-eternal, impermanent. One of the deepest Buddhist teachings, ‘all that arises ceases’. To understand this is liberation.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Buddha as an experience transcends mere personality.
‘Buddha as an experience transcends mere personality; it invites us to embody his enlightened awareness, manifesting wisdom and compassion in our own lives.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — As we continue our journey.
‘Buddha’s path is not one of striving but a path of realising, not a path of becoming but a path of being. It is a path that asks us to let go of our ideas about enlightenment and to experience the truth of our own being, directly and intimately, in each moment of our lives.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation: Śūnyatā — emptiness — challenges our conventional ways of thinking.
‘The idea of śūnyatā — emptiness — challenges our conventional ways of thinking. It teaches that all things are empty of inherent, independent existence, but this does not mean they are non-existent.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Get to the point of realising, without doubt.
‘Get to the point of realising, without doubt, that negative motivations have negative reactions’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Perfect Way.
‘The Perfect Way is difficult only for those who pick and choose.’
Seng-ts’an
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