I have included an extract from Bodhidharma’s work here, as it is less widely known.
Mahayana
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
Morning meditation — Do not be like those sophists who have studied rhetoric and judge a person’s wisdom only by his eloquence.
‘Do not be like those sophists who have studied rhetoric and judge a person’s wisdom only by his eloquence. As it is said, “A snake drinks water and produces poison; a cow drinks water and produces milk.” If you train wisely, bodhi is produced; if you train.’
Master Bojo
Morning meditation — If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it.
‘Manjushri: 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 Manjushri, the Crown Prince.’
Prajnaparamita
