When I just rest
within empty lucidity,
the false cavern of all things of samsara and nirvana implodes,
and everything dawns as the ornamentation of ultimate reality.
Mahayana
Morning meditation — The Essence of Emptiness.
‘The essence of emptiness is the non-existence of duality.’
Madhyānta-vibhāga
Morning meditation — When you Reflect on the Practice.
‘When you reflect on the practice of the ancients… Sometimes, while practising it is as easy as pushing a boat over ice. At other times it is as difficult as trying to drag a cow to a well.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — The Teachings are Based on This.
‘The Buddha was totally awakened and saw the three times as clearly as if they were held in the palm of his own hand. The teachings are based on this immense clarity.’
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Morning meditation — Liberation is Like the Earth.
‘This liberation is like earth, because it’s the refuge of all sentient beings.’
Avalokiteshvara
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 — Those for Whom Sunyatā is.
Nāgārjuna says ‘Sunyatā is the exhaustion of all views’ and adds ‘Those for whom Sunyatā is itself a theory are incurable.’
Nagarjuna
Morning meditation — Devoid of the Self and Other.
‘The body was like mist, so it was free from dualistic activity and there was recognition devoid of the self and other.
I thought: “It makes sense that all sentient beings can understand the meaning of the nature of mind like I have understood it.”’
Padmasambhava
Buddhism now 