‘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
Mahayana
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
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
