‘Mind is empty, and while being empty, it still knows or experiences. Space is empty and does not know anything. That is the difference between space and mind.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Mahayana
Morning meditation — A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.
‘A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation: Today is Rohatsu – the Zen Buddhist day celebrating the Buddha’s enlightenment.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Zen Buddhism
Morning meditation — At times it goes well and at times it does not.
‘Many monks who practise in meditation halls often just settle down in such places. Thus out of ten practitioners eight or nine are unable to pierce through the barrier of the patriarchs.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Many monks who practise in meditation halls.
‘Many monks who practise in meditation halls often just settle down in such places. Thus out of ten practitioners eight or nine are unable to pierce through the barrier of the patriarchs.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — While we are unenlightened.
‘While we are unenlightened, there is an element of shared or general experience.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience.
‘Please understand that all your experience is your personal experience rather than somebody else’s. It is your experience, and thus is different from the personal experience of others.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Buddhism now 