‘Non-self is nothing other than the stopping of one’s own painfully narrow thinking, and the preserving of natural truth, which is called the eye of the teaching.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation: It doesn’t cost any money.
‘It doesn’t cost any money to be mindful.’
Kōshō Uchiyama
Morning meditation — Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva.
‘Limitless are the practices of the bodhisattva; but first of all you should engage in the practice of purifying the mind.’
Acharya Shantideva
Morning meditation: If you talk too much.
‘If you talk too much, the universe begins to yawn.’
Zen master Iida
Morning Meditation — Make the universe your shrine room.
‘Make the universe your shrine room. Make this place your meditation mat.’
Zen Master Hakuin
Morning meditation — Those who negate too much.
‘Those who negate too much fall into nihilism.
Those who negate too little fall into eternalism.’
Nagarjuna
Morning Meditation: Keeping precepts.
‘Keeping precepts results in a good rebirth, making offerings results in future blessings — but not buddha.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha.
‘Voidness (sunyara) has been taught by the Buddha to ward off the adherence to a self on the part of those who have gone astray through views and of those who seek the view of self.’
Vajrapanjara
Buddhism now 