‘Being lost among the causes of suffering is to abandon supreme happiness.
Why do you delight in unhappiness?’
Engaging deeds of Bodhisattva
Mahayana
Morning meditation — There is no other door to.
‘There is no other door to peace,
And it destroys wrong views.
That which is the object of
All Buddhas is called selflessness.’
Aryadeva
Morning meditation — Enlightenment is just the same thing as this Manjusri.
‘If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it. But I do not strive after enlightenment, because enlightenment is just the same thing as this Manjusri, the Crown Prince.’
Prajnaparamita
Morning Meditation — The Muni can observe delusion.
‘The Muni can observe delusion; the person with delusion cannot.’
Aryadeva
Morning meditation — A static condition is not the right zazen.
‘A static condition is not the right zazen.’
Rindo Fujimoto Roshi
Morning Meditation — The treasure cannot speak.
‘Buddha Nature is like a store of treasure inside the house of a pauper. The owner isn’t aware of it, and the treasure cannot speak.’
Tathagatagarbha Sutra
Morning meditation — When in company watch your mouth.
‘When alone check your mind. When in company watch your mouth.’
Atisa Dipamkara
Morning meditation — The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers.
‘The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself.’
The Buddha
