‘The tongue which produces careless speech is like an axe used to kill oneself.’
Kusan Sunim
Mahayana
Morning meditation — If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas.
‘Again I ask you, can you fully comprehend the Unmoving Ground you were originally endowed with before your parents gave birth to you? If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the three time-periods.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — All things are Buddha-things.
‘“All things are Buddha-things.” And why? Because what was preached by the Tathāgata, O Subhūti, as all things, that was preached as no-things; and therefore all things are called Buddha-things.’
Avalokiteshvara
Morning meditation —Our practice of what is meaningful.
‘Our practice of what is meaningful
May be definite or indefinite.
Our thoughts about giving things up,
And taking them on,
Are like stars.’
The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva
Morning meditation —Self-occurring wisdom is pure from the beginning.
‘Self-occurring wisdom is pure from the beginning.
It is free from habitual patterns,
Even those of the five inexplicables,
Just like a lotus is free from mud.
Use this to teach the way of enlightenment!’
The Tathagata
The Great Tantra of Vajrasattva
Morning meditation — Buddhas and sentient beings.
‘Followers of the way Buddhas and sentient beings are not two.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Now, during this intermediate period of the bardo of this life.
‘Now, during this intermediate period of the bardo of this life, decide, with complete certainty, that the wisdom of your own awareness is dharmakāya, and sustaining the ongoing experience of its self-radiance, the meditation which is naturally clear’
Longchenpa
Morning meditation — There’s no ‘truth’ corresponding to the word truth.
‘There’s no ‘truth’ corresponding to the word truth.’
Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way
Buddhism now 