‘After a good time, the rush of thoughts outward and inward, subsides naturally, and the true face shows itself as the solution to the koan.’
Trevor Leggett
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Buddha’s teaching is not complicated.
‘The Buddha’s teaching is not complicated, but it is radical. It asks us to turn away from the constant pursuit of pleasure, power, and identity, and to rest in the reality of the present. It asks us to trust in the simplicity of awareness?’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The “Great Matter” is being awake.
‘The “Great Matter” is being awake. At its deepest level, being unawake is Dukkha — suffering.’
Everyday Buddhism
Evening meditation — If the Way’s deep nature is misconceived.
‘If the Way’s deep nature is misconceived, striving for tranquillity is vain.’
Seng-ts’an
Morning meditation — Despite their limitations, words remain indispensable.
‘Despite their limitations, words remain indispensable. The Buddhist tradition itself is built upon texts, dialogues, and commentaries—words pointing beyond words. The challenge is not to avoid language, but to use it skilfully, without becoming trapped by it.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Just as the peak of a mountain is not shaken.
‘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 — Atammayatā is not simply non-attachment.
‘Atammayatā is not simply non-attachment, nor is it a cold detachment from the joys and sorrows of life. It is deeper than that. It is the undoing of the compulsion to identify, to take ownership, to entangle oneself in the ceaseless whirl of becoming.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — When we cling to a fixed idea of self.
‘When we cling to a fixed idea of self, we set ourselves in opposition to the natural flow of life. But when we embrace impermanence, we align ourselves with reality, and in doing so, we find peace.’
Everyday Buddhism
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