‘Once the illusory nature is seen in actuality, then the solid character that we have attached to what we experience, simply vanishes.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Mahayana
Morning meditation — Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant.
‘Wrong views are the activity of the ignorant consciousness conditioned by the circumstances in which one is enmeshed.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — The indissoluble union of voidness and compassion.
‘The indissoluble union of voidness (sunyara) and compassion (karuna) is called ‘mind of enlightenment (bodhicitta). Sekoddeśa’
Tsongkhapa
Morning meditation — Those who negate too much.
‘Those who negate too much fall into nihilism.
Those who negate too little fall into eternalism.’
Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Those who do not see Suchness.
‘Morning Meditation: Those who do not see Suchness are attached to the world and Nirvana, but those who see Suchness are not attached to either.’
Nagarjuna
Some Guanyins (Avalokiteshvara) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The world of all living things is but emptiness,
And so Guanyin’s compassionate heart is at rest.
Morning meditation — There can be no Awakening as long as.
‘There can be no awakening as long as there’s any concept or image. All concepts and images are relative and phenomenal.’
Rindo Fujimoto Roshi
Morning meditation — The Clear Wind and the Bright Moon.
‘The clear wind and the bright moon demonstrate the great truth.’
Kusan Sunim
Buddhism now 