‘If we are constantly following what others say and think, we never live our own lives.’
Diana St Ruth
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation: Don’t set up Stages.
‘Don’t set up stages for Awakening.
Meditate without waiting.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation: As for Mindfulness.
‘As for mindfulness, monks, I declare that it is always useful.’
The Buddha,
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation: This is one Extreme.
‘Everything exists — this is one extreme. Nothing exists — this is the other extreme. Avoiding both, the Tathagata teaches the Middle Way.’
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation: Conditioned by Ignorance.
‘The Tathagata [The Buddha] teaches a doctrine of the middle: Conditioned by ignorance are the Karma-formations.’
Samyutta Nikaya
Morning meditation: Bodhicitta Helps.
‘May all beings caught up in confusion realise that only Bodhicitta helps both self and other.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation: Anatta Literally Means.
‘Anatta literally means not-self.
Bad translations are no Soul, no Ego.
Belief of self is so deep it’s thought of as real.Awakening dissolves the idea of both self and not self.
Emptiness (Sunyatā) is a synonym for the insight of seeing not-self (anatta).’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The Faculty of Faith.
‘The faculty of faith, of energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom conduce to enlightenment.’
The Buddha
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