‘Past, future, and present Buddhas — All are the same. They reveal the wisdom of the path, Never having seen defilement.’
Avaivartikacakra sūtra
Mahayana
Morning meditation — The real function of zazen is.
‘The real function of zazen is not to rest the mind but to establish a base or foundation for it.’
Rindo Fujimoto Roshi
How to Lose Yourself (Book Review). Plus A Zen Reflection on Wuxin from The Treatise on No-Mind.
I have included an extract from Bodhidharma’s work here, as it is less widely known.
Morning meditation — To enter non-duality means to see.
‘To enter non-duality means to see that I and not I are not two.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — If people who cultivate the path give up fame.
‘If people who cultivate the path give up fame to enter the mountains but fail to cultivate these practices and, instead, make a show of deportment to deceive the faithful patrons, it is worse than seeking fame and gain, or passing an entire life in vain’
Master Bojo Chinul
Morning meditation — Extraordinary people ultimately extend.
‘A poem says:
Extraordinary people ultimately extend in all horizontal and vertical directions.’
Kusan Sunim
When we see events through the lens of a pure mind.
This pure awareness is not detached or indifferent.
Morning meditation — North, south, east and west being void.
‘North, south, east and west being void, they form a single house.’
Kusan Sunim
Buddhism now 