‘A static condition is not the right zazen.’
Rindo Fujimoto Roshi
Mahayana
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
Morning meditation — It directs all sentient beings to omniscience.
‘This liberation is like wind, because it directs all sentient beings to omniscience.’
Avalokiteshvara
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Morning meditation — The timeless the truth of enlightenment.
‘Sunyatā: The born — the temporal — and the unborn — the timeless the truth of enlightenment — of the Buddha’s own discourses.’
Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way
Morning meditation — Becoming and Nirvana.
‘Becoming and Nirvana — neither of these is existent; the complete understanding of becoming may be called Nirvana.’
Arya Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — All beings also are recipients of the unthinkable concentration.
‘Sariputra, it is because this concentration is unthinkable that it does not exist and is not apprehended. Nevertheless, Sariputra, not anyone is not a recipient of the unthinkable concentration, but all beings also are recipients of the unthinkable concentration.’
Manjusri
Prajnaparamita
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