‘Simultaneous Awareness of Both
The jade-green lady throws her shuttle
upon the whirling loom;
the stone man beats his drum:
Boom! Boom!’
Chan Master Fenyang
Morning Meditaton
Morning meditation — The Buddha’s teaching offers both a warning and a promise.
‘The Buddha’s teaching offers both a warning and a promise: the warning that no external search will ever bring us to the end of suffering, and the promise that the end of suffering can indeed be realised — right here, in this very life.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning Meditation: Mind doesn’t appear as a monk or a layman.
‘Mind doesn’t appear as a monk or a layman, an elder or a novice, a sage or a fool, a Buddha or a mortal.’
Bodhidharma
Morning meditation — A great, wise person looks at it.
‘A great, wise person looks at it
And does not get involved.’
Chan Master Fenyang
Morning meditation — The Real within the Apparent.
‘The midnight moon shines brightly;
the sun must yield greeting to the dawn.
The Real within the Apparent
From a single hair a mighty tree grows;
a drop of water swells into a river.’
Chan Master Fenyang
Morning meditation — Buddha is not something to be attained.
‘Buddha is not something to be attained but something to be realised in the very fabric of our daily lives.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — The brightness of awareness is not an intellectual understanding.
‘The brightness of awareness is not an intellectual understanding, but an experiential clarity — an ability to see things as they truly are, in the present moment, without the filters of desire, fear, or ignorance.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Compassion that arises naturally.
‘Buddha is the quality of awareness that observes without judgement, the compassion that arises naturally when we let go of our self-centred views, the wisdom that knows the impermanence and interdependence of all things.’
Everyday Buddhism
